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Name: Charles Perrault
Birth Date: January 12, 1628
Death Date: May 15, 1703
Nationality: French
Gender: Male

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Biography of Charles Perrault
3,309 words, approx. 11 pages
Charles Perrault was the author of a fairy-tale collection that has become better known than virtually any other work of Western literature. His Histoires, ou Contes du temps passé, avec des moralitez (1697; translated as Histories or Tales of...


Quotations
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Charles Perrault Quotes
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Charles Perrault (1628-1703) was an author of fairy stories. His collection Contes de ma mere l'Oye (Tales of Mother Goose) appeared in 1697 and was translated into English by Robert Sambert in 1727. It is not clear how much he wrote the stories and...


Encyclopedia and Summary Information
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Perrault, Charles
120 words, approx. 1 pages
(born Jan. 12, 1628, Paris, France—died May 15/16, 1703, Paris) French poet, prose writer, and storyteller. Perrault began to win a literary reputation &circa; 1660 with light verse and love poetry. He is best remembered for his collection of...
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Charles Perrault Information
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Medieval 16th century · 17th century 18th century · 19th century 20th century ·...


News and Journals
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Renaissance Quarterly
Seeing Through the Mother Goose Tales: Visual Turns in the Writings of Charles Perrault. (book reviews)
06/22/1998: 447 words, approx. 2 pages
Philip Lewis. Stanford: Stanford University Press, 1995. 300 pp. $39.50. ISBN: n.a. Philip Lewis presents his work in two parts, or rather in two directions that could have continued to remain separate fields and hence destroy the unity of his study but...
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The Architects' Journal
Dominique Perrault
06/30/2005: 583 words, approx. 2 pages
Dominique Perrault won a competition last week to design a pavilion for Priory Park in Reigate, Surrey - his office's first scheme on this side of the Channel Congratulations, you've finally picked up a commission in the UK. For me, this is really...
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The New York Observer
Summer Season Exotica, In Rome\'d1 and Closer to Home
7/31/2005: 1,353 words, approx. 5 pages
A few weeks ago, I was in steamy Rome, where I dropped in on the second annual Rome Chamber Music Festival, an event that has enlivened the Eternal City’s midsummer doldrums with an injection of American sass. Most of the sass comes from Robert McDuffie,...
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The New York Observer
Summer Season Exotica, In Rome- and Closer to Home
7/31/2005: 1,352 words, approx. 5 pages
A few weeks ago, I was in steamy Rome, where I dropped in on the second annual Rome Chamber Music Festival, an event that has enlivened the Eternal City’s midsummer doldrums with an injection of American sass. Most of the sass comes from Robert McDuffie,...
 


Criticism and Essays
Literary Criticism
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Critical Essay by Philip Lewis
13,409 words, approx. 45 pages
In the following essay, Lewis analyzes Perrault's writings with respect to Cartesian ideas about visualization and self-sensation, arguing that Perrault simultaneously—and ingeniously—resisted and appropriated René Decartes' insights.
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Critical Essay by Carol de Dobay Rifelj
6,933 words, approx. 23 pages
In the essay below, de Dobay Rifelj analyzes the similarities in the ways Perrault and the Marquis de Sade viewed and represented women in their writings, finding the female characters passive and weak.
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Critical Essay by Jeanne Morgan
6,395 words, approx. 21 pages
In the following essays, Morgan analyzes Perrault's development of the prose conte (tale) in relation to other prose and verse forms of the era, and offers reasons for Perrault's lasting literary significance.
 


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