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"Puss in Boots" (German: Der gestiefelte Kater; French: Le Maître chat ou le Chat botté; Italian: Il gatto con gli stivali; Dutch: De Gelaarsde Kat) is a European fairy tale about an anthropomorphic cat who uses trickery and deceit to gain power, wealth, and the hand in marriage of a princess for his penniless and low-born master.
Puss in Boots is a 2012 picture book of the classic fairy tale by Jerry Pinkney. Based on Charles Perrault 's version, it is about a cat that enables his owner to achieve fame and fortune. Reception
'Puss' is a character in the fairy tale "The Master Cat, or Puss in Boots" by Charles Perrault. The tale was published in 1697 in his Histoires ou Contes du temps passé. [1] The tale of a cat helping an impoverished master attain wealth through its trickery is known in hundreds of variants. [2] Gustave Doré created an illustrated version (right).
Puss in Boots is a 1922 ... Julius' original plan was to use ... Jack (2010), "De-Disneyfying Disney", The Enchanted Screen: The Unknown History of Fairy-Tale ...
Since Puss in Boots’ first appearance in Shrek 2 in 2004, Antonio Banderas has been voicing the fairy tale character and growing alongside him. A sequel to the 2011 Puss in Boots film ...
Charles Perrault was born in Paris on 12 January 1628, [3] [4] to a wealthy bourgeois family and was the seventh child of Pierre Perrault (father) and Paquette Le Clerc. He attended very good schools and studied law before embarking on a career in government service, following in the footsteps of his father and elder brother Jean.
Like the Shrek movies before it, Puss in Boots’ box-office numbers were right out of a fairy tale. It became the 15th highest-grossing movie of 2011, earning $145 million in the U.S. and $554 ...
The 15 fairy tales were influential with later authors, some were the first recorded instances of now-famous stories, like "Puss in Boots". [1] Many of the tales were later collected or retold in Giambattista Basile’s The Tale of Tales (1634–36) and Jacob and Wilhelm Grimm's Grimm's Fairy Tales (1812–15). [1]