Popular Tales: Perrault's Contes, Edited by Andrew Lang
Sep 2026 · Aeneas Press
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The eight tales Perrault published in 1697 and thereby fixed for Europe: the sleeping beauty, little red riding hood, bluebeard, puss in boots, the fairies, cinderella, ricky of the tuft and hop o' my thumb. He was a senior civil servant and a leader of the moderns in the great literary quarrel; the tales were an argument in it. Each ends in a verse moral, and several of the morals are jokes. Fifty-nine plates of country fairs, gleaners and candlelit interiors by painters from Adam de Coster to Millet carry the peasant world the tales were drawn from.
The eight tales Perrault published in 1697 and thereby fixed for Europe: the sleeping beauty, little red riding hood, bluebeard, puss in boots, the fairies, cinderella, ricky of the tuft and hop o' my thumb. He was a senior civil servant and a leader of the moderns in the great literary quarrel; ...
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Charles Perrault (1628–1703) was a lawyer and a senior civil servant under Louis XIV, an academician who started the quarrel of the ancients and the moderns, and — in his sixties, and at first under his son's name — the man who set down Cinderella, Puss in Boots and Sleeping Beauty in the form the world has kept.
Charles Perrault (1628–1703) was a lawyer and a senior civil servant under Louis XIV, an academician who started the quarrel of the ancients and the moderns, and — in his sixties, and at first under his son's name — the man who set down Cinderella, Puss in Boots and Sleeping Beauty in the form th...
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