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Charles Perrault
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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 i
Portrait by Charles Le Brun, c. 1670
Portrait by Charles Le Brun, c. 1670
Perrault in an early 19th-century engraved frontispiece
Perrault in an early 19th-century engraved frontispiece
Portrait of Perrault, c. 1685–1700 (the visible date of 1671 is when he was elected to the French Academy)
Portrait of Perrault, c. 1685–1700 (the visible date of 1671 is when he was elected to the French Academy)
Bluebeard
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"Bluebeard" is a French folktale, the most famous surviving version of which was written by Charles Perrault and first published by Claude Barbin in Paris in 1697 in Histoires ou contes du temps passé
Charles Perrault
…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". Some of Perrault's versions of old stories influenced the German versions published by the Brothers Grimm more than 100 years later. The stories…
Bluebeard, his wife, and the key in a 1921 illustration by W. Heath Robinson
Bluebeard, his wife, and the key in a 1921 illustration by W. Heath Robinson
The Wife is given the keys of the house. Illustration by Walter Crane
The Wife is given the keys of the house. Illustration by Walter Crane
Bluebeard is slain in a woodcut by Walter Crane
Bluebeard is slain in a woodcut by Walter Crane
Edmund Dulac illustration, 1910
Edmund Dulac illustration, 1910