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"Cinderella", [a] or "The Little Glass Slipper", is a folk tale with thousands of variants that are told throughout the world. [2] [3] The protagonist is a young girl living in forsaken circumstances who is suddenly blessed by remarkable fortune, with her ascension to the throne via marriage.
French writer, poet, poet lawyer, collector of fairy tales, critic and children's writer: Date of birth/death: 12 January 1628 : 16 May 1703 : Location of birth/death: Paris : Paris : Work period: 1653 –1703 : Work location
The story was first recorded by the Greek historian Strabo in the late first century BC or early first century AD and is considered the earliest known variant of the "Cinderella" story. [1] The origins of the fairy-tale figure may be traced back to the 6th-century BC hetaera Rhodopis. [2]
The fairy godmother transforms all the mice, lizards, and rats into horses and coachmen for a golden coach, and creates for Cinderella a gown made of gold and silver and slippers made of glass. The only thing her fairy godmother asks is for Cinderella to return home by midnight before the magic ends.
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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.
Two other members of the film’s main cast signed on before getting a script as well — both play men who are tapped by Anora’s new in-laws to investigate her marriage.
The second part of the tale, wherein the sister tries to kill the princess and her return for three times, fits the ATU tale type 403, "The Black and the White Bride". [4] [5] [6] Norwegian folklorist Reidar Thoralf Christiansen classified the tale as an Irish variant of Cinderella, which continues as tale type 403. [7]