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Charles 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, 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’).
May 16, 2019 · Charles 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.
May 17, 2018 · PERRAULT, CHARLES (1628 – 1703), French poet, literary theoretician, and fairy tale writer. Charles Perrault belonged to a family of middle-class government functionaries, among whom was his brother Claude, an architect best remembered for his remodeled columns on the Louvre.
Charles 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.
Charles Perrault was a seventeenth-century French author and literary theoretician who is credited with creating the fairy tale genre. Check out this biography to know more about his childhood, family life and achievements.
Charles Perrault (January 12, 1628 – May 16, 1703) was a French author who laid foundations for a new literary genre, the fairy tale. In 1697 in Paris, Perrault published several tales from the oral tradition that he modified with his own embellishments.
