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Charles Perrault (12 January 1628 – 16 May 1703) 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 pre-existing folk tales. The best known of his tales include Le Petit Chaperon rouge (Little Red Riding Hood), Cendrillon (Cinderella), Le Chat Botté (Puss in Boots), La Belle au bois dormant (The Sleeping Beauty) and La Barbe bleue (Bluebeard).^[1] Many of Perrault's stories, which were rewritten by the Brothers Grimm, continue to be printed and have been adapted to opera, ballet (such as Tchaikovsky's The Sleeping Beauty), theatre, and film (Disney). Perrault was an influential figure in the 17th-century French literary scene, and was the leader of the Modern faction during the Quarrel of the Ancients and the Moderns.

Biography

Charles Perrault was born in Paris to a wealthy bourgeois family, the seventh child of Pierre Perrault and Paquette Le Clerc. He attended good schools and studied law before embarking on a career in government service, following in the footsteps of his father and older brother Jean.

He took part in the creation of the Academy of Sciences as well as the restoration of the Academy of Painting. In 1654, he moved in with his brother Pierre, who had purchased a post as the principal tax collector of the city of Paris. When the Academy of Inscriptions and Belles-Lettres was founded in 1663, Perrault was appointed its secretary and served under Jean Baptiste Colbert, finance minister to King Louis XIV.^[2] Jean Chapelain, Amable de Bourzeys, and Jacques Cassagne (the King's librarian) were also appointed.

Using his influence as Colbert's administrative aide, he was able to get his brother, Claude Perrault, employed as designer of the new section of the Louvre, built between 1665 and 1680, to be overseen by Colbert. His design was chosen over designs by Gian Lorenzo Bernini (with whom, as Perrault recounts in his Memoires, he had stormy relations while the Italian artist was in residence at Louis's court in 1665) and François Mansart.^[3] One of the factors leading to this choice included the fear of high costs, for which other architects were infamous^{[citation needed]}, and second was the personal antagonism between Bernini and leading members of Louis's court, including Colbert and Perrault; King Louis himself maintained a public air of benevolence towards Bernini, ordering the issuing of a royal bronze portrait medal in honor of the artist in 1674.^[4]

In 1668, Perrault wrote La Peinture ('’Painting’’) to honor the king's first painter, Charles Le Brun. He also wrote Courses de testes 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.

Perrault married Marie Guichon, age 19, in 1672; she died in 1678.

In 1669 Perrault advised Louis XIV to include thirty-nine fountains each representing one of the fables of Aesop in the labyrinth of Versailles in the gardens of Versailles. The work was carried out between 1672 and 1677. Water jets spurting from the animals mouths were conceived to give the impression of speech between the creatures. There was a plaque with a caption and a quatrain written by the poet Isaac de Benserade next to each fountain. Perrault produced the guidebook for the labyrinth, Labyrinte de Versailles, printed at the royal press, Paris, in 1677, and illustrated by Sebastien le Clerc.^[6]

Philippe Quinault, a longtime family friend of the Perraults, quickly gained a reputation as the librettist for the new musical genre known as opera, collaborating with composer Jean-Baptiste Lully. After Alceste (1674) was denounced by traditionalists who rejected it for deviating from classical theater, Perrault wrote in response Critique de l'Opéra (1674) in which he praised the merits of Alceste over the tragedy of the same name by Euripides. His treatise was one of the first documents of the literary debate that was later to become known as the Quarrel of the Ancients and the Moderns.

Perrault was elected to the Académie française in 1671 and initiated the Quarrel of the Ancients and the Moderns (Querelle des Anciens et des Modernes), which pitted supporters of the literature of Antiquity (the "Ancients") against supporters of the literature from the century of Louis XIV (the "Moderns"). He was on the side of the Moderns and wrote Le Siècle de Louis le Grand (The Century of Louis the Great, 1687) and Parallèle des Anciens et des Modernes (Parallel between Ancients and Moderns, 1688–1692) where he attempted to prove the superiority of the literature of his century. Le Siècle de Louis le Grand was written in celebration of Louis XIV's recovery from a life-threatening operation. Perrault argued that because of Louis'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 gave his son, Jules-Armand, marquis d'Ormoy, the same tasks as Perrault and forced him into retirement at the age of fifty-six. Colbert would die the next year, and he stopped receiving the pension given to him as a writer. Colbert's successor, François-Michel Le Tellier, marquis de Louvoi, who was jealous of Colbert, quickly removed Perrault from his other appointments.

After this, in 1686, Perrault decided to write epic poetry and show his genuine devotion to Christianity, writing Saint Paulin, évêque de Nôle (St. Paulinus, Bishop of Nola, about Paulinus of Nola). Just like Jean Chapelain's La Pucelle, ou la France délivrée, an epic poem about Joan of Arc, Perrault became a target of mockery from Nicolas Boileau-Despréaux.

Charles Perrault died in Paris in 1703 at age 75.

Tales of Mother Goose

In 1695, when he was 67, Perrault lost his post as secretary. He decided to dedicate himself to his children. In 1697 he published Tales and Stories of the Past with Morals (Histoires ou Contes du Temps passé), subtitled Tales of Mother Goose (Les Contes de ma Mère l’Oye).^[7]^[8] Its publication made him suddenly widely known beyond his own circles. He is often credited as the founder of the modern fairy tale genre, yet his work reflects awareness of earlier fairy tales written in the salons, most notably by Marie-Catherine Le Jumel de Barneville, Baroness d'Aulnoy, who coined the phrase "fairy tale" and was writing tales as early as 1690.^[9] Even so, many of the most well-known tales that we hear today, such as Cinderella and Little Red Riding Hood, are told as he wrote them. He had actually published his collection under the name of his last son (born in 1678), Pierre (Perrault) Darmancourt ("Armancourt" being the name of a property he bought for him), probably fearful of criticism from the "Ancients".^[10] In the tales, he used images from around him, such as the Chateau Ussé for The Sleeping Beauty and in Puss in Boots the Marquis of the Château d'Oiron, and contrasted his folktale subject matter, with details and asides and subtext drawn from the world of fashion. Following up on these tales, he translated the Fabulae Centum (100 Fables) of the Latin poet Gabriele Faerno into French verse in 1699.^[11]

References

^ Biography, Bibliography (in French)/
^ Sideman, B. B.: "The World's Best Fairy Tales", page 831. The Reader's Digest Association, 1967.
^ For the conflict between Bernini and Perrault in Paris, see Mormando, Franco (2011). Bernini: His Life and His Rome. Chicago: University of Chicago Press. pp. 268–288. ISBN 978-0-226-53852-5.
^ Mormando, Franco (2011). Bernini: His Life and His Rome. Chicago: University of Chicago Press. pp. 245–288, passim. ISBN 978-0-226-53852-5.
^ The engraving is derived at more than one remove from the portrait of 1671, now at the Musée de Versailles, by an unknown artist.
^ "scan of the book at the Bibliothèque nationale de France". Gallica.bnf.fr. 15 October 2007. Retrieved 24 March 2014.
^ The spelling of the name is with “y” although modern French uses only an ‘i’. This “Mother Goose” has never been identified as a person but used to refer to popular and rural telltales traditions in proverbial phrases of the time. (Source : Dictionnaire de l’Académie, 1694, quoted by Nathalie Froloff in her edition of the ‘’Tales’’ (Gallimard, Folio, Paris, 1999.- p.10)
^ Neil, Philip; Nicoletta Simborowski (1993). The Complete Fairy Tales of Charles Perrault. Houghton Mifflin Harcourt. p. 126. ISBN 0-395-57002-6.
^ Jasmin, Nadine (2002). Naissance du conte féminin, Mots et merveilles, Les contes de fées de Madame d’Aulnoy, 1690-1698. Paris: Champion. ISBN 2-7453-0648-0.
^ Collin, F. (1999). Charles Perrault, le fantôme du XVIIe siècle. Draveil, Colline. ISBN 2-9513668-0-9.
^ The 1753 London re-edition is available online

External links

Media related to Charles Perrault at Wikimedia Commons
Herbermann, Charles, ed. (1913). "Charles Perrault" . Catholic Encyclopedia. New York: Robert Appleton Company.
Works by Charles Perrault at Project Gutenberg
Woks by Charles Perrault in the Internet Archive
Charles Perrault at the Internet Speculative Fiction Database
Charles Perrault's fairy tales at World of tales
SurLaLune Fairy Tale Pages: Fairy Tales of Charles Perrault
Template:Fr icon Charles Perrault, his work in audio version
Fairy Tales of Charles Perrault
The Tales of Mother Goose - Illustrated fairy Tales of Charles Perrault

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[1] Biography, Bibliography (in French)/

[2] Sideman, B. B.: "The World's Best Fairy Tales", page 831. The Reader's Digest Association, 1967.

[3] For the conflict between Bernini and Perrault in Paris, see Mormando, Franco (2011). Bernini: His Life and His Rome. Chicago: University of Chicago Press. pp. 268–288. ISBN 978-0-226-53852-5.

[4] Mormando, Franco (2011). Bernini: His Life and His Rome. Chicago: University of Chicago Press. pp. 245–288, passim. ISBN 978-0-226-53852-5.

[5] The engraving is derived at more than one remove from the portrait of 1671, now at the Musée de Versailles, by an unknown artist.

[6] "scan of the book at the Bibliothèque nationale de France". Gallica.bnf.fr. 15 October 2007. Retrieved 24 March 2014.

[7] The spelling of the name is with “y” although modern French uses only an ‘i’. This “Mother Goose” has never been identified as a person but used to refer to popular and rural telltales traditions in proverbial phrases of the time. (Source : Dictionnaire de l’Académie, 1694, quoted by Nathalie Froloff in her edition of the ‘’Tales’’ (Gallimard, Folio, Paris, 1999.- p.10)

[8] Neil, Philip; Nicoletta Simborowski (1993). The Complete Fairy Tales of Charles Perrault. Houghton Mifflin Harcourt. p. 126. ISBN 0-395-57002-6.

[9] Jasmin, Nadine (2002). Naissance du conte féminin, Mots et merveilles, Les contes de fées de Madame d’Aulnoy, 1690-1698. Paris: Champion. ISBN 2-7453-0648-0.

[10] Collin, F. (1999). Charles Perrault, le fantôme du XVIIe siècle. Draveil, Colline. ISBN 2-9513668-0-9.

[11] The 1753 London re-edition is available online

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+'''Charles Perrault''' (12 January 1628 – 16 May 1703) 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 pre-existing [[Folklore|folk tale]]s.  The best known of his tales include ''Le Petit Chaperon rouge'' (''[[Little Red Riding Hood]]''), ''Cendrillon'' (''[[Cinderella]]''), ''Le Chat Botté'' (''[[Puss in Boots]]''), ''La Belle au bois dormant '' (''[[Sleeping Beauty|The Sleeping Beauty]]'') and ''La Barbe bleue'' (''[[Bluebeard]]'').<ref>[http://www.biblioweb.org/-PERRAULT-Charles-.html Biography, Bibliography] (in French)/</ref> Many of  Perrault's stories, which were rewritten by the [[Brothers Grimm]], continue to be printed and have been adapted to opera, ballet (such as [[Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky|Tchaikovsky]]'s ''[[The Sleeping Beauty (ballet)|The Sleeping Beauty]]''), theatre, and film (Disney). Perrault was an influential figure in the 17th-century French literary scene, and was the leader of the Modern faction during the [[Quarrel of the Ancients and the Moderns]].
+==Biography==
+Charles Perrault was born in [[Paris]] to a wealthy [[bourgeois]] family, the seventh child of Pierre Perrault and Paquette Le Clerc. He attended good schools and studied law before embarking on a career in government service, following in the footsteps of his father and older brother Jean.
+He took part in the creation of the Academy of Sciences as well as the restoration of the Academy of Painting. In 1654, he moved in with his brother Pierre, who had purchased a post as the principal tax collector of the city of Paris. When the [[Académie des Inscriptions et Belles-Lettres|Academy of Inscriptions and Belles-Lettres]] was founded in 1663, Perrault was appointed its secretary and served under [[Jean Baptiste Colbert]], finance minister to [[King Louis XIV]].<ref>Sideman, B. B.: "The World's Best Fairy Tales", page 831. The Reader's Digest Association, 1967.</ref> [[Jean Chapelain]], [[Amable de Bourzeys]], and [[Jacques Cassagne]] (the King's librarian) were also appointed.
+Using his influence as Colbert's administrative aide, he was able to get his brother, [[Claude Perrault]], employed as designer of the new section of the [[Louvre]], built between 1665 and 1680, to be overseen by Colbert. His design was chosen over designs by [[Gian Lorenzo Bernini]] (with whom, as Perrault recounts in his ''Memoires,'' he had stormy relations while the Italian artist was in residence at Louis's court in 1665) and [[François Mansart]].<ref>For the conflict between Bernini and Perrault in Paris, see {{cite book |first=Franco |last=Mormando |title=Bernini: His Life and His Rome |location=Chicago |publisher=University of Chicago Press |year=2011 |pages=268–288 |isbn=978-0-226-53852-5 }}</ref>  One of the factors leading to this choice included the fear of high costs, for which other architects were infamous{{Citation needed|date=July 2011}}, and second was the personal antagonism between Bernini and leading members of Louis's court, including Colbert and Perrault; King Louis himself maintained a public air of benevolence towards Bernini, ordering the issuing of a royal bronze portrait medal in honor of the artist in 1674.<ref>{{cite book |first=Franco |last=Mormando |title=Bernini: His Life and His Rome |location=Chicago |publisher=University of Chicago Press |year=2011 |pages=245–288, passim |isbn=978-0-226-53852-5 }}</ref>
+In 1668, Perrault wrote ''La Peinture'' ('’Painting’’) to honor the king's first painter, [[Charles Le Brun]]. He also wrote ''Courses de testes et de bague'' (''Head and Ring Races'', 1670), written to commemorate the 1662 celebrations staged by Louis for his mistress, [[Louise de La Vallière|Louise-Françoise de La Baume le Blanc, duchesse de La Vallière]].
+[[File:Charles Perrault02.jpg|thumb|245px|right|upright|Perrault in an early 19th-century engraved frontispiece<ref>The engraving is derived at more than one remove from the [[:File:Charles Perrault04.jpg|portrait of 1671, now at the Musée de Versailles]], by an unknown artist.</ref>]]
+Perrault married Marie Guichon, age 19, in 1672; she died in 1678.
+In 1669 Perrault advised Louis XIV to include thirty-nine fountains each representing one of the [[Aesop's Fables|fables of Aesop]] in [[the labyrinth of Versailles]] in [[Gardens of Versailles|the gardens of Versailles]]. The work was carried out between 1672 and 1677. Water jets spurting from the animals mouths were conceived to give the impression of speech between the creatures. There was a plaque with a caption and a quatrain written by the poet [[Isaac de Benserade]] next to each fountain. Perrault produced the guidebook for the labyrinth, ''Labyrinte de Versailles'', printed at the royal press, Paris, in 1677, and illustrated by Sebastien le Clerc.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://gallica.bnf.fr/ark:/12148/bpt6k108017c.r=Labyrinte+de+Versailles+Perrault.langEN |title=scan of the book at the Bibliothèque nationale de France |publisher=Gallica.bnf.fr |date=2007-10-15 |accessdate=2014-03-24}}</ref>
+[[Philippe Quinault]], a longtime family friend of the Perraults, quickly gained a reputation as the librettist for the new musical genre known as [[opera]], collaborating with composer [[Jean-Baptiste Lully]]. After ''[[Alceste (Lully)|Alceste]]'' (1674) was denounced by traditionalists who rejected it for deviating from classical theater, Perrault wrote in response ''Critique de l'Opéra'' (1674) in which he praised the merits of ''Alceste'' over the [[Alcestis (play)|tragedy of the same name]] by [[Euripides]]. His [[treatise]] was one of the first documents of the literary debate that was later to become known as the [[Quarrel of the Ancients and the Moderns]].
+Perrault was elected to the [[Académie française]] in 1671 and initiated the Quarrel of the Ancients and the Moderns (''Querelle des Anciens et des Modernes''), which pitted supporters of the literature of [[Classical antiquity|Antiquity]] (the "Ancients") against supporters of the literature from the century of [[Louis XIV of France|Louis XIV]] (the "Moderns"). He was on the side of the Moderns and wrote ''Le Siècle de Louis le Grand'' (''The Century of Louis the Great'', 1687) and ''Parallèle des Anciens et des Modernes'' (''Parallel between Ancients and Moderns'', 1688–1692) where he attempted to prove the superiority of the literature of his century. ''Le Siècle de Louis le Grand '' was written in celebration of Louis XIV's recovery from a life-threatening operation. Perrault argued that because of Louis'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 gave his son, Jules-Armand, marquis d'Ormoy, the same tasks as Perrault and forced him into retirement at the age of fifty-six. Colbert would die the next year, and he stopped receiving the pension given to him as a writer. Colbert's successor, [[François Michel Le Tellier|François-Michel Le Tellier, marquis de Louvoi]], who was jealous of Colbert, quickly removed Perrault from his other appointments.
+After this, in 1686, Perrault decided to write [[epic poetry]] and show his genuine devotion to [[Christianity]], writing ''Saint Paulin, évêque de Nôle'' (''St. Paulinus, Bishop of Nola'', about [[Paulinus of Nola]]). Just like [[Jean Chapelain]]'s ''La Pucelle, ou la France délivrée'',  an epic poem about Joan of Arc, Perrault became a target of mockery from [[Nicolas Boileau-Despréaux]].
+Charles Perrault died in Paris in 1703 at age 75.
+==''Tales of Mother Goose''==
+In 1695, when he was 67, Perrault lost his post as secretary. He decided to dedicate himself to his children. In 1697 he published ''[[Histoires ou contes du temps passé|Tales and Stories of the Past with Morals]]'' (''Histoires ou Contes du Temps passé''), subtitled ''[[Tales of Mother Goose]]'' (''Les Contes de ma Mère l’Oye'').<ref>The spelling of the name is with “y” although modern French uses only an ‘i’. This “Mother Goose” has never been identified as a person but used to refer to popular and rural telltales traditions in proverbial phrases of the time. (Source : ''Dictionnaire de l’Académie'', 1694, quoted by Nathalie Froloff in her edition of the  ‘’Tales’’ (Gallimard, Folio, Paris, 1999.- p.10)</ref><ref>{{cite book|last=Neil|first=Philip|author2=Nicoletta Simborowski|title=The Complete Fairy Tales of Charles Perrault|publisher=Houghton Mifflin Harcourt|year=1993 |page=126 |isbn=0-395-57002-6}}</ref> Its publication made him suddenly widely known beyond his own circles. He is often credited as the founder of the modern fairy tale genre, yet his work reflects awareness of earlier fairy tales written in the salons, most notably by [[Madame d'Aulnoy|Marie-Catherine Le Jumel de Barneville, Baroness d'Aulnoy]], who coined the phrase "fairy tale" and was writing tales as early as 1690.<ref>{{cite book |first=Nadine |last=Jasmin |title=Naissance du conte féminin, Mots et merveilles, Les contes de fées de Madame d’Aulnoy, 1690-1698 |location=Paris |publisher=Champion |year=2002 |isbn=2-7453-0648-0 }}</ref> Even so, many of the most well-known tales that we hear today, such as [[Cinderella]] and [[Little Red Riding Hood]], are told as he wrote them. He had actually published his collection under the name of his last son (born in 1678), Pierre (Perrault) Darmancourt ("Armancourt" being the name of a property he bought for him), probably fearful of criticism from the "Ancients".<ref>{{cite book |first=F. |last=Collin |title=Charles Perrault, le fantôme du XVIIe siècle |publisher=Draveil, Colline |year=1999 |isbn=2-9513668-0-9 }}</ref> In the tales, he used images from around him, such as the [[Chateau Ussé]] for ''[[Sleeping Beauty|The Sleeping Beauty]]'' and in ''[[Puss in Boots]]'' the Marquis of the [[Château d'Oiron]], and contrasted his folktale subject matter, with details and asides and subtext drawn from the world of fashion. Following up on these tales, he translated the ''Fabulae Centum'' (100 Fables) of the Latin poet [[Gabriele Faerno]] into French verse in 1699.<ref>The 1753 London re-edition is available [http://books.google.com/books?id=wlATAAAAQAAJ&printsec=frontcover&source=gbs_ge_summary_r&cad=0#v=onepage&q&f=false online]</ref>
+==See also==
+{{Portal|Children's literature|Kingdom of France}}
+*[[Marie-Jeanne L'Héritier]], Charles Perrault's niece
+*[[Madame d'Aulnoy]]
+*The [[Brothers Grimm]] retold their own versions of some of Perrault's fairy tales
+*[[Hans Christian Andersen]], who continued the fairy tale genre in the 19th century
+==References==
+[[File:Page 133 illustration from Fairy tales of Charles Perrault (Clarke, 1922).png|thumb|Page 133, illustration from ''Fairy tales of Charles Perrault'']]
+{{reflist}}
+==Further reading==
+* {{citation |last=Zarucchi |first=Jeanne Morgan |title=Seventeenth-Century French Writers|year=2003|publisher=Gale|location=Detroit |isbn=978-0-7876-6012-3}}
+* {{citation |last=Perrault |first=Charles |title=Les hommes illustres qui ont paru en France pendant ce siècle - avec leur portraits au naturel |language=French|location=Paris |year=1696|edition=2 vols. [[folio]] |volume=1 |url=http://archive.org/details/gri_hommesillust01perr}}
+* {{citation |last=Perrault |first=Charles |title=Les hommes illustres qui ont paru en France pendant ce siècle - avec leur portraits au naturel |language=French|location=Paris |year=1701|edition=2 vols. [[folio]] |volume=2 |url=http://archive.org/details/gri_hommesillust02perr}}
+**{{citation |last=Ozell |first=John |authorlink=John Ozell |title=Characters historical panegyrical of the Greatest men that have appeared in France during the last century 1704–5|edition=2 volumes [[8vo]] }} [https://archive.org/details/charactershisto00perrgoog vol. 1] (1704), [vol. 2] (1705) (English translation without the portraits)
+==External links==
+{{Wikiquote}}
+{{wikisource author|Charles Perrault}}
+*{{Commons category-inline}}
+*{{CathEncy|wstitle=Charles Perrault}}
+*{{gutenberg author| id=Perrault+Charles | name=Charles Perrault}}
+*[https://archive.org/search.php?query=creator%3A%22Perrault%2C+Charles%2C+1628-1703%22 Woks by Charles Perrault] in the [[Internet Archive]]
+*{{Isfdb name|20007|Charles Perrault}}
+*[http://worldoftales.com/fairy_tales/Perrault_fairy_tales.html Charles Perrault's fairy tales] at [http://worldoftales.com World of tales]
+*[http://www.surlalunefairytales.com/authors/perrault.html SurLaLune Fairy Tale Pages: Fairy Tales of Charles Perrault]
+* {{fr icon}} [http://www.litteratureaudio.com/livres-audio-gratuits-mp3/tag/charles-perrault/ Charles Perrault, his work in audio version] [[File:Speaker Icon.svg|20px]]
+*[http://www.perraultfairytales.com Fairy Tales of Charles Perrault]
+* [http://www.ciffciaff.org/en/content/tales-mother-goose The Tales of Mother Goose] - Illustrated fairy Tales of Charles Perrault
+{{Académie française Seat 23}}
+{{Cinderella (Fairy tale)}}
+{{Sleeping Beauty}}
+{{Little Red Riding Hood}}
+{{Charles Perrault}}
+{{Use dmy dates|date=January 2011}}
+{{Authority control|VIAF=34461426}}
+{{Persondata <!-- Metadata: see [[Wikipedia:Persondata]]. -->
+| NAME              = Perrault, Charles
+| ALTERNATIVE NAMES =
+| SHORT DESCRIPTION = French writer
+| DATE OF BIRTH     = 12 January 1628
+| PLACE OF BIRTH    = [[Paris]], [[France]]<sup>1</sup>
+| DATE OF DEATH     = 16 May 1703
+| PLACE OF DEATH    = [[Italy]], [[France]]
+}}
+{{DEFAULTSORT:Perrault, Charles}}
+[[Category:1628 births]]
+[[Category:1703 deaths]]
+[[Category:Writers from Paris]]
+[[Category:Collectors of fairy tales]]
+[[Category:French children's writers]]
+[[Category:French fantasy writers]]
+[[Category:Members of the Académie française]]
+[[Category:17th-century French writers]]
+[[Category:Members of the Académie des Inscriptions et Belles-Lettres]]
+[[Category:Lycée Saint-Louis alumni]]

v t e "Sleeping Beauty" by Charles Perrault and the Brothers Grimm
Theatre	La belle au bois dormant (opera) La belle au bois dormant (opera) The Sleeping Beauty (ballet) Hex (musical)
Variants	Sun, Moon, and Talia The Young Slave The Glass Coffin
Retellings	Alinda of the Loch Beauty Briar Rose Enchantment The Light Princess "Little Daylight" The Ordinary Princess The Sleeping Beauty Quartet Spindle's End
Films	Sleeping Beauty (1949) Sleeping Beauty (1955) Sleeping Beauty (1959) Some Call It Loving (1973) How to Wake a Princess (1949) Sleeping Beauty (1987) Keys to the Kingdom (2007) Sleeping Betty (2008) Maleficent film series Maleficent (2014) Maleficent: Mistress of Evil (2019) The Seventh Dwarf (2014) The Curse of Sleeping Beauty (2016) Charming (2018)
Music	"Once Upon a Dream" (song) Maleficent (soundtrack) Mistress of Evil (soundtrack) "You Can't Stop the Girl" (song)
Characters	Prince Charming Wicked fairy Disney's Sleeping Beauty characters Aurora Flora, Fauna and Merryweather Maleficent
Related	Disney's Sleeping Beauty franchise The Sleeping Beauty and the Beast
Category

v t e "Little Red Riding Hood"
Film	Red Riding Hood (1901) Little Red Riding Hood (1920) Little Red Riding Hood (1953) Little Red Riding Hood (1954) Rotkäppchen (1962) Tom Thumb and Little Red Riding Hood (1962) About the Little Red Riding Hood (1977) Red Riding Hood (1989) Little Red Riding Hood (1997) Red Riding Hood (2003) Red Riding Hood (2006) Red Riding Hood (2011)
Animation	Little Red Riding Hood (1922 cartoon) Dizzy Red Riding Hood (1931 cartoon) Old King Cole (1933 cartoon) The Big Bad Wolf (1934 cartoon) Little Red Walking Hood (1937 cartoon) The Bear's Tale (1940 cartoon) Red Hot Riding Hood (1943 cartoon) Goldilocks and the Jivin' Bears (1944 cartoon) Little Red Riding Rabbit (1944 cartoon) Who's Cookin' Who? (1946 cartoon) Little Rural Riding Hood (1949 cartoon) Little Red Rodent Hood (1952 cartoon) Red Riding Hoodwinked (1955 cartoon) Red Riding Hoodlum (1957 cartoon) Now Hare This (1958 cartoon) Little Woody Riding Hood (1962 cartoon) Rough Riding Hood (1966 cartoon) For the Love of Pizza (1972 cartoon) The Magic Riddle (1991 film) Redux Riding Hood (1997 film) Hoodwinked! (2005 film) Hoodwinked Too! Hood vs. Evil (2011 film)
Video games	Little Red Riding Hood's Zombie BBQ (2008) The Path (2009) Overlord: Dark Legend (2009) Dragon Fin Soup (2015)
Stage adaptations	Little Red Riding Hood (1911 opera) Grimm (2014 musical)
Literary adaptations	The Tale of Jemima Puddle-Duck (1908) Anguish Languish (1956) Chapeuzinho Amarelo (1970) Flossie & the Fox (1986) Lon Po Po: A Red-Riding Hood Story from China (1989) Wolf (1990) Little Red Cap (1999) Scarlet (2013)
Other adaptations	"Li'l Red Riding Hood" (1966) The Company of Wolves (1984) The Red Spectacles (1987) Freeway (1996) Black XXX-Mas (1999) Jin-Roh: The Wolf Brigade (1999) Tokyo Red Hood (2003) A Wicked Tale (2005) "Red-Handed" (2012) "Child of the Moon" (2012) Little Dead Rotting Hood (2016)
Related	Big Bad Wolf (character) Red (character) Akazukin Chacha (1994 anime series) Goldilocks and the Jivin' Bears Now Hare This Deadtime Stories Baby Bear and the Big, Bad Wolf Simsala Grimm (Animated TV series) Into the Woods (1986 Broadway Production) Once Upon a Time (TV series) Xuxa em O Mistério de Feiurinha (2009 film) Into the Woods (2014 film) RWBY

v t e Charles Perrault
Works	Histoires ou contes du temps passé (1697) Griselidis (1695) The Ridiculous Wishes (1695) Donkeyskin (1695) Cinderella (1697) Little Red Riding Hood (1697) Sleeping Beauty (1697) Puss in Boots (1697) Bluebeard (1697) Diamonds and Toads (1697) Riquet with the Tuft (1697) Hop-o'-My-Thumb (1697)
Related	Marie-Jeanne L'Héritier Brothers Grimm

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