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Something wrong?He codified the fairy tale as a literary form in 1697, pulling folk stories into print and giving the world the first written versions of "Cinderella", "Little Red Riding Hood", and "Sleeping Beauty" - tales that would shape childhood imagination across three centuries.
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, When she had done her work, she would go over to the chimney corner, and sit among the cinders.
Her godmother, who was a fairy, said to her, "You want to go to the ball, don't you?
Go into the garden and get me a pumpkin.
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About this person
Born in Paris on 12 January 1628, Charles Perrault entered the Académie Française and became a central figure in the 17th-century French literary scene, leading the Modern faction during the Quarrel of the Ancients and the Moderns. In 1697 he published Histoires ou contes du temps passé, a collection drawn from earlier folk tales that included "Puss in Boots", "Bluebeard", and the stories that would define the fairy tale genre itself. His versions influenced the Brothers Grimm more than a century later and continued to be adapted across nearly every entertainment format. He died on 16 May 1703, having turned oral tradition into a literary inheritance that never went out of print.
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