Histoires ou contes du temps passé, avec des moralités, or Contes de ma mère l'Oye, is a collection of literary fairy tales written by Charles Perrault, published in Paris on 11 January 1697. The work
Title page from the first edition (1697)
17th-century portrait of Charles Perrault by Philippe Lallemand
Title page of the 1695 manuscript of Charles Perrault's Contes de ma mère l'Oye (The Morgan Library & Museum, New York)
Illustration of "Puss in Boots" from the 1695 manuscript of the Contes de ma mère l'Oye
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
Histoires ou contes du temps passé
…or Tales from Past Times, with Morals), or Contes de ma mère l'Oye (English: Mother Goose Tales), is a collection of literary fairy tales written by Charles Perrault, published in Paris on 11 January 1697. The work became popular because it was written at a time when fairy tales were fashionable amongst aristocrats…
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)