Though today fairy tales are often deemed children’s stories, back in the 17th century children’s literature did not exist in fact, Perrault was writing these tales for his peers who frequented the literary salons of Paris. The stories, published as Tales and Stories of the Past with Morals ( Histoires ou contes du temps passé), and subtitled Tales of Mother Goose, were based on old folk tales. It was Charles Perrault who wrote these fairy tales, back in the 1690s. Have you heard of the 17th-century French writer Charles Perrault? If the name is unfamiliar, I have no doubt that the following will strike a chord:
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