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Bookmark or Share- Charles Perrault - WikipediaCharles Perrault (/ pɛˈroʊ / peh-ROH, US also / pəˈroʊ / pə-ROH, French: [ʃaʁl pɛʁo]; 12 January 1628 – 16 May 1703) was a French author and member of the Académie Française.
- Charles Perrault | Biography, Fairy Tales, Books, & Facts - BritannicaCharles Perrault, French poet, prose writer, and storyteller, who played a prominent part in a literary controversy known as the quarrel of the Ancients and Moderns. He is best remembered for his collection of fairy stories for children, ‘Contes de ma mere l’oye’ (1697; ‘Tales of Mother Goose’).
- Charles Perrault: The French Father Of Fairy Tales - All That's InterestingCharles Perrault was a 17th-century academic who wrote early versions of fairy tales like Cinderella that influenced the Brothers Grimm. The author of the original Cinderella and Sleeping Beauty only began to write fairy tales after he retired based on the stories he told his own children.
- The Fairy Tales of Charles Perrault — Long long time agoCharles Perrault (1628-1703) was a French poet and writer, and one of the best-loved personalities of 17th century France. He is remembered today for his collection of fairytales published in 1697 under the title Histoires ou Contes du Temps Passé.
- Perrault Biography - Princeton UniversityHe calls Perrault "a truant from school, a deserter of the Bar, an architect without professional training, a man of letters by inclination, a rebel against the tyranny of the classics, and immortal by a kind of accident." When he was in school in Paris, Perrault was always at the head of his class. He enjoyed exercises in verse.
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