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Charles Perrault
| French poet, critic, storyteller, creator of the images of Cinderella, Sleeping Beauty, Thumb, Puss in Boots... He was a lawyer in Paris, served in the fiscal (tax) department. Date of Birth: 12.01.1628 Country: France |
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- Biography of Charles Perrault
- Early Life and Career
- The Fairy Tales
- Legacy
Biography of Charles Perrault
Charles Perrault (January 12, 1628, Paris - May 16, 1703, ibid) was a French poet, critic, and storyteller.
He is known for creating characters such as Cinderella, Sleeping Beauty, Tom Thumb, and Puss in Boots.
Early Life and Career
Perrault was born into a bourgeois-civil servant family and studied law before working at the court.
His first literary attempts were love poems, followed by his parody poem "Les Murs de Troie ou l'Origine de la Burlesque" (1653). He wrote allegorical poems, odes, and epistles in the style of gallant court poetry.
As a member of the "Querelle des Anciens et des Modernes" (Quarrel of