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| - Charles Perrault was a French writer well known for his fairy tales.
- Charles Perrault est un scénariste et réalisateur de film porno du Moyen-Âge. Il a écrit des films cultes comme Cembryon ou encore la série Les cons de ta mère l'Oie, mais il est surtout connu pour son fameux film La petite chatte rouge.
- Charles Perrault (12 January 1628 – 16 May 1703) was a French author and biographer of the Flemish Pirate Jean Bart.
- Charles Perrault (1628--1703) was a 17th century Frenchman who wrote fairy tales with remarkable sticking power. If it didn't come from Andersen or the Grimms, chances are good that Perrault wrote it. Perrault was already a renowned writer when he turned his hand to fairy tales, and, in 1697, published Histoires ou Contes du Temps passé ("Tales and Stories of the Past with Morals"), but the book subsequently became better known under it's subtitle Les Contes de ma Mère l’Oye a.k.a. Tales of Mother Goose. Note that this is technically the same Mother Goose who is the personification of Nursery Rhyme, but at that time she was still connected to fairy tales. The book was initially published under the name of his son, presumably because he feared criticism for writing in a "childish" genre.
- Charles Perrault was born in Paris on January 12, 1628. He was born into a wealthy family, although not a noble one. He was the seventh child of Pierre Perrault and Paquette Le Clerc. After studying law, Charles Perrault entered the civil service, as his father and older brother Jean had done before him. In 1669, Perrault advised King Louis XIV to include thirty-nine fountains in the labyrinth of Versailles which each represented one of the fables of Aesop. The fountains were installed between 1672 and 1677. Perrault wrote a guidebook to the labyrinth of Versailles which was published in 1677.
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| - Charles Perrault was a French writer well known for his fairy tales.
- Charles Perrault was born in Paris on January 12, 1628. He was born into a wealthy family, although not a noble one. He was the seventh child of Pierre Perrault and Paquette Le Clerc. After studying law, Charles Perrault entered the civil service, as his father and older brother Jean had done before him. Perrault took part in the creation of the Academy of the Sciences and the restoration of the Academy of Painting. He became the first secretary of the Academy of Inscriptions and Belles-Lettres (a society devoted to the promotion of the humanities) when the society was founded in 1663. As such, he served under Jean-Baptiste Colbert, the finance minister to King Louis XIV. Thanks to his connection to Colbert, Charles Perrault was able to get his brother Claude appointed as the designer of a new section of the Louvre that was built between 1665 and 1680. In 1668, Charles Perrault wrote the poem "La Peinture" ("Painting") in honor of King Louis XIV's favorite painter Charles Le Brun. In 1670, he wrote the poem "Courses de testes et de bague" ("Head and Ring Races") in honor of celebrations that Louis XIV held for his mistress Louise de La Vallière. In 1669, Perrault advised King Louis XIV to include thirty-nine fountains in the labyrinth of Versailles which each represented one of the fables of Aesop. The fountains were installed between 1672 and 1677. Perrault wrote a guidebook to the labyrinth of Versailles which was published in 1677. Perrault became a member of the Académie française in 1671. In 1672, he married Marie Guichon, who died in 1678. In 1674, Perrault's friend Philippe Quinault wrote a libretto for Jean-Baptiste Lully's opera Alceste, based on the ancient Greek play Alcestis by Euripides. After the opera was criticized for not following the established rules of classical drama, Perrault wrote an essay in which he stated that Qinault's libretto was better than Euripides' original play. The publication of this essay brought about the start of the so called Quarrel of the Ancients and the Moderns, a heated artistic and literary debate which took place in France throughout the rest of the 17th century and which flared up again when Perrault's essay was republished after his death in the early 18th century. The debate pitted the Ancients, those who thought that the art and literature of ancient Greece and Rome were superior, against the Moderns, those who thought that the art and literature of their own century were better. Charles Perrault was on the side of the moderns and wrote further essays in support of their cause. Charles Perrault was forced to retire from the Academy of Inscriptions and Belles-Lettres in 1682. He then attempted to write Christian epic poetry, for which he was mocked in the writings of the French satirist Nicolas Boileau. IN 1694, Perrault wrote three fairy tales in verse. He later rewrote those three stories in prose and they were published along with eight other fairy tales in his 1697 book Histoires ou Contes du temps passé . The success of this volume led Perrault to translate into French verse some of the fables that were written in Latin by the 16th century Italian poet Gabriele Faerro. Perrault died in Paris on May 16, 1703 at the age of 75.
- Charles Perrault (1628--1703) was a 17th century Frenchman who wrote fairy tales with remarkable sticking power. If it didn't come from Andersen or the Grimms, chances are good that Perrault wrote it. Perrault was already a renowned writer when he turned his hand to fairy tales, and, in 1697, published Histoires ou Contes du Temps passé ("Tales and Stories of the Past with Morals"), but the book subsequently became better known under it's subtitle Les Contes de ma Mère l’Oye a.k.a. Tales of Mother Goose. Note that this is technically the same Mother Goose who is the personification of Nursery Rhyme, but at that time she was still connected to fairy tales. The book was initially published under the name of his son, presumably because he feared criticism for writing in a "childish" genre. Tales of Mother Goose contains the best known versions (pre-Disney, anyway) of:
* "Bluebeard"
* "Cinderella"
* "Donkeyskin"
* "Hop O My Thumb
* "The Ludicrous Wishes"
* "Puss in Boots" Perrault's version of "Little Red Riding Hood" ended in the girl's death, and was superseded by the Grimms' more optimistic version. Likewise, although he wrote "Sleeping Beauty" and "Snow White and Rose Red", the Grimm versions are better known. Many of his stories were based on pre-existing fairy tales, but he was among the first to tell them on paper, especially with a distinctive and elegant style. Others who wrote their own fairy tales in the same period (primarily women) have not had the lasting popularity that Perrault has, with the possible exception of Madame de Villeneuve and Madame LePrince de Beaumont, who between them were responsible for "Beauty and The Beast". This man is not to be confused with Charles Kuralt, the original host of CBS News Sunday Morning. Examples of tropes in Perrault's Tales of Mother Goose:
* An Aesop: He was fond of appending these to his stories, in rhyme, although sometimes they don't seem to quite match up with the story (the moral for "Bluebeard"? Ladies, don't be too curious. Because living with a serial killer is apparently fine, so long as you don't find out.)
* Beauty Equals Goodness
* Be Careful What You Wish For
* Distressed Damsel
* Evil Matriarch: "Sleeping Beauty". It's tough when your mother-in-law is literally an ogress.
* Fairy Tale
* Family-Unfriendly Violence/Death: Mostly in "Bluebeard", but there may be something of this in the death of the Queen in "Sleeping Beauty".
* Happily Ever After
* Karmic Jackpot
* Love At First Sight
* Puss in Boots: Perrault's story is the trope namer.
* Rags to Royalty: A male version, in "Puss in Boots".
* Rule of Three
* Serial Killer: "Bluebeard"
* Youngest Child Wins
- Charles Perrault est un scénariste et réalisateur de film porno du Moyen-Âge. Il a écrit des films cultes comme Cembryon ou encore la série Les cons de ta mère l'Oie, mais il est surtout connu pour son fameux film La petite chatte rouge.
- Charles Perrault (12 January 1628 – 16 May 1703) was a French author and biographer of the Flemish Pirate Jean Bart.
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