“Fetch me my seven-league boots so I can catch the children.”
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Charles Perrault
Charles Perrault was a French author and member of the Académie Française. He laid the foundations for a new literary genre, the fairy tale, with his works derived from earlier folk tales, published in his 1697 book Histoires ou contes du temps passé. The best known of his tales include "Little Red Riding Hood", "Cinderella", "Puss in Boots", "Sleeping Beauty", and "Bluebeard".
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culture · French author (1628–1703) · writer · poet · poet lawyer · collector of fairy tales · critic · children's writer · art theorist · short story writer · film screenwriter · also Charles Perrault, C. Perrault, Perrault
Born 12 January 1628 · Died 16 May 1703 · Q128460
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2026· 6 entries
“...Open anything you want. Go anywhere you wish. But I absolutely forbid you to enter that little room, and if you open it so much as a crack, nothing will protect you from my wrath.”
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“Haven't you heard that this house belongs to an ogre who eats little children?”
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“Opéra (1674), in which he praised the merits of Alceste over the tragedy of the same name by Euripides. This treatise on Alceste initiated the Quarrel of the Ancients and the Moderns (Querelle des Anciens et des Modernes), which pitted supporters of the literature of Antiquity (the”
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“s enlightened rule, the present age was superior in every respect to ancient times. He also claimed that even modern French literature was superior to the works of antiquity, and that, after all, even Homer nods. In 1682, Colbert forced Perrault into retirement at the age of 56, assigning his tasks to his own son, Jules-Armand, marquis d”
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“s first painter, Charles Le Brun. He also wrote Courses de tetes et de bague (Head and Ring Races, 1670), written to commemorate the 1662 celebrations staged by Louis for his mistress, Louise-Françoise de La Baume le Blanc, duchesse de La Vallière. At Colbert”
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1703· 2 entries
Died 1703-05-16.
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“Opis: o bajkach Perraulta.”
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1671· 1 entry
Career landmark: seat 23 of the Académie française (1671–1703).
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1663· 1 entry
Career landmark: Perpetual Secretary of the Académie des Inscriptions et Belles-Lettres (1663–1682).
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1628· 1 entry
Born 1628-01-12.
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