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
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)
Little Red Riding Hood
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Little Red Riding Hood is a fairy tale about a young girl and a Big Bad Wolf. Some later versions include a woodsman. Its origins can be traced back to several pre-17th-century European folk tales, wi
Charles Perrault
…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". Some of Perrault's versions of old stories influenced the German versions published…
Illustration by J. W. Smith
"Little Red Riding Hood" as illustrated in a 1927 story anthology
Gustave Doré's engraving of the scene "She was astonished to see how her grandmother looked."
A "Little Red Riding Hood" illustration by Arthur Rackham