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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.
Histoire d’une fille de ferme Story of a girl farmhand The Political and Literary Review (Blue edn) 3/26/1881 Suicides Suicides [Note 4] Le Gaulois 8/29/1880 Maufrigneuse Les dimanches d’un bourgeois de Paris Parisian middle-class Sundays Le Gaulois 05/31/1880 - 08/16/1880 Boule de suif "Boule de Suif" (Lump of lard)
Pendant mon court trajet, à un pâté de maisons de la fenêtre sous laquelle j’allais dormir, mon taxi s’est fait arrêter à un poste de contrôle par des policiers en chemises bleues à manches courtes, arborant l’air perplexe des hommes qui attendent de faire graisser la patte.
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.
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