Charles Perrault

Charles Perrault was born in Paris in 1628 into a well-to-do family. He studied law and then worked for his brother and later for Jean-Baptiste Colbert, chief minister of King Louis XIV, helping to oversee royal buildings and the arts; he was involved in plans for the Louvre and the gardens of Versailles. He was elected to the Académie française in 1671. In the 1680s and 1690s he led the 'moderns' in a famous literary quarrel, arguing that the writers of the age of Louis XIV equaled or surpassed those of ancient Greece and Rome. In 1697, when he was nearly seventy, he published Stories or Tales from Times Past, with Morals, also known as Tales of Mother Goose. It contained eight prose tales, including Cinderella, Sleeping Beauty, Little Red Riding Hood, Puss in Boots and Bluebeard, written in an elegant style and each followed by a moral in verse. These versions became the basis of many later retellings. Perrault died in Paris in 1703.

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