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Charles Perrault, 17th century author who represented the Modernes.. The Quarrel of the Ancients and the Moderns (French: Querelle des Anciens et des Modernes) was a debate about literary and artistic merit, which expanded from the original debaters to the members of the Académie Française and the French literary community in the 17th century.
Charles Perrault (/ p ɛ ˈ r oʊ / peh-ROH, US also / p ə ˈ r oʊ / pə-ROH, French: [ʃaʁl pɛʁo]; 12 January 1628 – 16 May 1703) was a French author and member of the Académie Française. He laid the foundations for a new literary genre, the fairy tale , with his works derived from earlier folk tales , published in his 1697 book ...
The 19th-century confusion with Georges Lallemand of Nancy, a teacher of Nicolas Poussin, Philippe de Champaigne and Laurent de La Hyre, has long been cleared up. [ 2 ] His morceaux de reception for the Académie royale de peinture et de sculpture in 1672 [ 3 ] were his portraits of the author Charles Perrault and the financier Gédéon Berbier ...
Grand Siècle or Great Century refers to the period of French history during the 17th century, under the reigns of Louis XIII and Louis XIV. [2] The period was notable for its development of art and literature, along with the construction of the Palace of Versailles, the effects of the French Wars of Religion, and the impacts of the Thirty ...
Charles Perrault (brother) Pierre Perrault (brother) Claude Perrault ( French pronunciation: [klod pɛʁo] ; 25 September 1613 – 9 October 1688) was a French physician and amateur architect, best known for his participation in the design of the east façade of the Louvre in Paris. [ 1 ]
Gabrielle-Suzanne Barbot de Villeneuve (28 November 1685 – 29 December 1755) [1] was a French author influenced by Madame d'Aulnoy, Charles Perrault, and various précieuse writers. [2] Villeneuve is particularly noted for her original story of La Belle et la Bête , which was published in 1740 and is the oldest known variant of the fairy ...
Title page of the 1695 manuscript of Charles Perrault's Contes de ma mère l'Oye (The Morgan Library & Museum, New York) [1]. Histoires ou contes du temps passé, avec des moralités or Contes de ma mère l'Oye (Stories or Tales from Past Times, with Morals or Mother Goose Tales) [2] is a collection of literary fairy tales written by Charles Perrault, published in Paris in 1697.
"Donkeyskin" (French: Peau d'Âne) is a French literary fairytale written in verse by Charles Perrault. It was first published in 1695 in a small volume and republished in 1697 in Perrault's Histoires ou contes du temps passé. [1] Andrew Lang included it, somewhat euphemized, in The Grey Fairy Book.