Charles Perrault Facts
Charles Perrault Facts
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Some of the most famous fairy tales Charles Perrault is known for include Little Red Riding Hood, Cinderella, Puss in Boots, Sleeping Beauty, and Bluebeard. |
Charles Perrault's first job was as a lawyer and tax collector. |
Charles Perrault was very well-connected and even knew the king of France. |
Charles Perrault did not begin to write fairy tales until he was 70 years old. His first published book was titled Stories or Tales from Times Past, with Morals: Tales of Mother Goose. |
The stories had been folk tales that were well known throughout Europe but had not been written down in book form. |
Charles Perrault published the first book under the name Pierre, who was his son. |
Charles Perrault's stories were much racier than the current versions Disney has created on film. |
In Charles Perrault's version of Sleeping Beauty, she works in a brothel to help earn an income. |
When Charles Perrault got married in 1672 he was 44. His wife Marie Guichon was only 19 years old. She died in 1678 and Charles removed himself from the public life. |
Charles and Marie had three children together. |
Charles Perrault wrote Little Red Riding Hood as a warning to young girls about men who would prey on them while they were walking through the forest. His message was that these men could seem very respectable but they were wolves underneath their false persona. |
The story Cinderella is considered to be the story that has been filmed the most times since the first film was made in 1899 by a French director named Georges Melies. |
The Brothers Grimm stories were inspired greatly by the works of Charles Perrault, 200 years later. |
Charles Perrault is considered to be one of France's most famous authors in literature. |
Charles Perrault served as the head of the Modern group during the Quarrel of the Ancients and the Moderns - a literary and artistic debate that took place during the late 1600s and early 1700s. |
Charles Perrault died five years after he published his first fairy tale. He died in Paris in 1703 at the age of 75. |
Some believe that Charles Perrault published under his son's name because he was worried about criticism from the Ancients, due to being a Modern in the Quarrel of the Ancients and Moderns. |
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