- Children, Juvenile, Fiction, Literature
***A cunning cat wins for his master a castle, a fortune, and the hand of a princess.***
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About the book
- Author
- Charles Perrault
- First published
- 1865
- Pages
- 32
- Publisher
- ︠T︡Sentrpoligraf, Faber & Faber, Childs World
- Editions
- 66
- Language
- French, English, German, Chinese
- ISBN
- 9780898283297
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“C'est un vieux meunier.”
The French author who laid the foundations for the fairy tale genre of literature. His collected "Contes des fées" (widely known as the Mother Goose stories) have been endlessly retold, most profitably by Disney. Every child knows "Cinderella", "Beauty and the Beast", "Sleeping Beauty", "Snow White", "Puss in Boots", "Tom Thumb", and "Red Riding Hood". Charles Perrault naquit a Paris le 12 janvier 1628, septieme enfant de Pierre Perrault, avocat au parlement de Paris. Apres d'excellentes etudes au college de Beauvais, rue Jean-De-Beauvais a Paris, il fut recu avocat en 1651. Il abandonna bientot apres le barreau et devint commis de son frere aine, Pierre, receveur general des finances de Par
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