Charles perrault biography pdf

Charles Perrault‘s 388th birthday is today and Google has commemorated it with a series of three beautifully-illustrated Doodles. Perrault is the author of several beloved fairy tales and was born January 12, 1628.

He’s also known as the “father of the fairy tale.”

Many of the tales Perrault wrote aren’t like those you know today. Like the work of the Brothers Grimm, the stories have more explicit details than those in simple children’s books of today and were intended as moral stories.

Charles perrault biography pdf

Many fairy tales were told by peasant storytellers for years, and authors such as Perrault would collect them and retell them for the upper-class. The author was also an advisor in Louis XIV’s court, and the ruler considered the fairy tales just as vital as any other form of literature.

Perrault would take these often-told stories, and rewrite them, adding in more elaborate and magical elements making them grand ad