See also:

• CHARLES
• CHARLES (1270-1325)
• CHARLES (1421-1461)
• CHARLES (1525-1574)
• CHARLES (c. 1319-1364)
• CHARLES (Fr. Charles; Span. Carlos; Ital. Carlo; Ger. Karl; derived from O.H.G. Charal,latinized as Carolus, meaning originally " man ": cf. Mod.Ger., Kerl," fellow," A.S. ceorl, Mod. Eng. " churl ")
• CHARLES (KARL EITEL ZEPHYRIN LUDWIG; in Rum. CAROL)
• CHARLES [KARL ALEXANDER] (1712-1780)
• CHARLES, ELIZABETH (1828-1896)
• CHARLES, JACQUES ALEXANDRE CESAR (1746-1823)
• CHARLES, THOMAS (1755-1814)

CHARLES See also:

• CHARLES PERRAULT (1628-1703)

PERRAULT (1628-1703)  , See also:

• FRENCH
• FRENCH, DANIEL CHESTER (1850– )
• FRENCH, NICHOLAS (1604-1678)

French author, was See also:

• BORN, IGNAZ, EDLER VON (1742–1791)

born in See also:

• PARIS
• PARIS (also called ALEXANDROS)
• PARIS, ALEXIS PAULIN (1800-x881)
• PARIS, BRUNO PAULIN GASTON (1839-1903)
• PARIS, FRANCOIS DE (169o-1727)
• PARIS, LOUIS PHILIPPE ALBERT
• PARIS, TREATIES OF (1814-1815)

Paris on the 12th of See also:

• JANUARY

January 1628 . His See also:

• FATHER

father, See also:

• PIERRE

Pierre See also:

• PERRAULT, CHARLES (1628-1703)

Perrault, was a See also:

• BARRISTER

barrister, all of whose four sons were men of some distinction: See also:

• CLAUDE, JEAN (1619-1687)

Claude (1613-1688), the second, was by profession a physician, but became the architect of the Louvre, and translated See also:

• VITRUVIUS (MARCUS VITRUVIUS POLLIO)

Vitruvius (1673) . See also:

• CHARLES
• CHARLES (1270-1325)
• CHARLES (1421-1461)
• CHARLES (1525-1574)
• CHARLES (c. 1319-1364)
• CHARLES (Fr. Charles; Span. Carlos; Ital. Carlo; Ger. Karl; derived from O.H.G. Charal,latinized as Carolus, meaning originally " man ": cf. Mod.Ger., Kerl," fellow," A.S. ceorl, Mod. Eng. " churl ")
• CHARLES (KARL EITEL ZEPHYRIN LUDWIG; in Rum. CAROL)
• CHARLES [KARL ALEXANDER] (1712-1780)
• CHARLES, ELIZABETH (1828-1896)
• CHARLES, JACQUES ALEXANDRE CESAR (1746-1823)
• CHARLES, THOMAS (1755-1814)

Charles was brought up at the See also:

• COLLEGE (Collegium)

College de See also:

• BEAUVAIS

Beauvais, until he See also:

• CHOSE (Fr. for " thing ")

chose to See also:

• QUARREL

quarrel with his masters, after which he was allowed to follow his own See also:

• BENT
• BENT (E1. BENI)
• BENT, JAMES THEODORE (1852–1897)

bent in the way of study . He took his degree of licencie en See also:

• DROIT (Fr. for " right," from Lat. directus, straight)

droit at See also:

• ORLEANS
• ORLEANS, CHARLES, DUKE OF (1391-1465)
• ORLEANS, DUKES OF
• ORLEANS, FERDINAND PHILIP LOUIS CHARLES HENRY, DUKE OF (1810-1842)
• ORLEANS, HENRI, PRINCE
• ORLEANS, HENRIETTA, DUCHESS
• ORLEANS, JEAN BAPTISTE GASTON, DUKE
• ORLEANS, LOUIS
• ORLEANS, LOUIS PHILIPPE JOSEPH
• ORLEANS, LOUIS PHILIPPE ROBERT, DUKE
• ORLEANS, LOUIS PHILIPPE, DUKE OF (1725–1785)
• ORLEANS, LOUIS, DUKE OF (1372–1407)
• ORLEANS, PHILIP I
• ORLEANS, PHILIP II

Orleans in 1651, and was almost immediately called to the Paris See also:

• BAR
• BAR (0. Fr. barre, Late Lat. barra, origin unknown)
• BAR, CONFEDERATION OF
• BAR, FRANCOIS DE (1538-1606)
• BAR, THE

bar, where, however, he practised for a very See also:

• SHORT, FRANCIS JOB (1857– )

short See also:

• TIME (0. Eng. Lima, cf. Icel. timi, Swed. timme, hour, Dan. time; from the root also seen in " tide," properly the time of between the flow and ebb of the sea, cf. O. Eng. getidan, to happen, " even-tide," &c.; it is not directly related to Lat. tempus)
• TIME, MEASUREMENT OF
• TIME, STANDARD

time . In 1654 his See also:

• BROTHER

brother became See also:

• RECEIVER

receiver-See also:

• GENERAL
• GENERAL (Lat. generalis, of or relating to a genus, kind or class)

general of Paris, and made Charles his clerk . After nearly ten years of this employment he was, in 1663, chosen by See also:

• COLBERT, JEAN BAPTISTE (1619-1683)

Colbert as his secretary to assist and advise him in matters See also:

• RELATING

relating to the arts and sciences, not forgetting literature . He was controller-general of the See also:

• DEPARTMENT (Fr. departement, from departir, to separate into parts)

department of public See also:

• WORKS

works, member of the See also:

• COMMISSION (from Lat. commissio, committere)

commission that afterwards See also:

• DEVELOPED

developed into the Academie See also:

• DES

des See also:

• INSCRIPTIONS (from Lat. inscribere, to write upon)

inscriptions, and in 1671 he was admitted to the See also:

• ACADEMIC

Academic francaise . Perrault justified his See also:

• ELECTION
• ELECTION (from Lat. eligere, to pick out)

election in several ways . One was the orderly arrangement of the business affairs of the See also:

• ACADEMY, GREEK
• ACADEMY, ROYAL

Academy, another was the See also:

• SUGGESTION

suggestion of the See also:

• CUSTOM (from O. Fr. costume, costume or coustume; Low Lat. costuma, a shortened form of consuetudo)

custom of holding public seances for the reception of candidates . Colbert's See also:

• DEATH

death in 1683 put an end to Perrault's See also:

• OFFICIAL (Late Lat. QJicialis, for class. Lat. apparitor, from officium, office, duty)

official career, and he then gave himself up to literature, beginning with See also:

• SAINT (lat. sanctus, " holy ")

Saint Paulin eveeque de Nole, avec une epitre chretienne sur la penitence, et une See also:

• ODE (Gr. uiSri, from aei&ew, to sing)

ode aux nouveaux convertis . The famous dispute of the ancients and moderns arose from a poem on the Siecle de See also:

• LOUIS
• LOUIS (804–876)
• LOUIS (893–911)
• LOUIS, JOSEPH DOMINIQUE, BARON (1755-1837)
• LOUIS, or LEWIS (from the Frankish Chlodowich, Chlodwig, Latinized as Chlodowius, Lodhuwicus, Lodhuvicus, whence-in the Strassburg oath of 842-0. Fr. Lodhuwigs, then Chlovis, Loys and later Louis, whence Span. Luiz and—through the Angevin kings—Hungarian

Louis le See also:

• GRAND

Grand (1687), read before the Academy by Perrault, on which Boileau commented in violent terms . Perrault had ideas and a will of his own, and he published (4 vols., 1688-1696) his Parallele des anciens et des modernes .

The controversy that followed in its See also:

• TRAIN (M. Eng. trayn or trayne, derived through Fr. from Late Lat. trahinare, to drag, draw, Lat. trahere, cf. trail, trace, ultimately from the same source)

train raged hotly in See also:

• FRANCE
• FRANCE, ANATOLE (1844– )

France, passed thence to See also:

• ENGLAND
• ENGLAND, THE CHURCH OF

England, and in the days of See also:

• ANTOINE, ANDRE (1858- )

Antoine Houdart de la Motte and See also:

• FENELON, BERTRAND DE SALIGNAC

Fenelon See also:

• BROKE, or BROOKE, ARTHUR (d. 1563)
• BROKE, SIR PHILIP BOWES VERE, BART

broke out again in the See also:

• COUNTRY (from the Mid. Eng. contre or contrie, and O. Fr. cuntree; Late Lat. contrata, showing the derivation from contra, opposite, over against, thus the tract of land which fronts the sight, cf. Ger. Gegend, neighbourhood)

country of its origin . As far as Perrault is concerned he was inferior to his adversaries in learning, but decidedly See also:

• SUPERIOR

superior to them in wit and politeness . It is not known what See also:

• DREW
• DREW, SAMUEL (1765-1833)

drew Perrault to the See also:

• COMPOSITION
• COMPOSITION (Lat. compositio, from componere, to put together)

composition of the only works of his which are still read, but the See also:

• TASTE (from Lat. taxare, to touch sharply; tangere, to touch)

taste for See also:

• FAIRY (Fr. fee, faerie; Prov. facia; Sp. hada; Ital. fata; med. Lat. fatare, to enchant, from Lat. fatum, fate, destiny)

fairy stories and See also:

• ORIENTAL

Oriental tales at See also:

• COURT
• COURT (from the O. Fr. court, Late Lat. cortis, curtis, a popular form of class. Lat. cohors, gen. cohortis; the mod. Fr. form tour is due to the influence of the Lat. curia, the word used in medieval documents to translate " court " in the feudal sense)
• COURT, ANTOINE (1696-176o)

court is noticed by Mme de See also:

• SEVIGNE, MARIE DE

Sevigne in 1676, and at the end of the 17th See also:

• CENTURY (from Lat. centuria, a division of a hundred men)

century gave rise to the fairy stories of Mlle L'Heritier de Villaudon, whose Bigarrures ingenieuses appeared in 1696, of Mme d'See also:

• AULNOY (or AuNOY), MARIE CATHERINE LE JUMEL DE BARNEVILLE DE LA MOTTE, BARONNE

Aulnoy and others, while Antoine See also:

• GALLAND, ANTOINE (1646-1715)

Galland's See also:

• TRANSLATION

translation of the Thousand-and-One Nights belongs to the See also:

• EARLY
• EARLY, JUBAL ANDERSON (1816-1894)

early years of the 18th century . The first of Perrault's contes, Griselidis, which is in See also:

• VERSE (from Lat. versus, literally a line or furrow drawn by turning the plough, from vertere, and afterwards signifying an arrangement of syllables into feet)

verse, appeared in 1691, and was reprinted with Peau d'dne and See also:

• LES

Les Souhaits ridicules, also in verse, in a Recueil de pieces curieuses—published at the See also:

• HAGUE, THE (in Dutch, 's Gravenhage, or, abbreviated, den Haag; in Fr. La Haye; and in Late Lat. Haga Comitis)

Hague in 1694 . But Perrault was no poet, and the merit of these pieces is entirely obscured by that of the See also:

• PROSE

prose tales, La Belle au bois dormant, See also:

• PETIT, SIR DINSHAW MANECKJI, BART

Petit See also:

• CHAPERON

chaperon See also:

• ROUGE (" red," from Lat. rubeus)

rouge, La Barbe bleue, Le Chat botte, Les Fees, Cendrillon, Riquet a la houppe and Le Petit poucet, which appeared in a See also:

• VOLUME

volume with 1697 on the See also:

• TITLE (0. Fr. title, mod. titre, from Lat. titulus)

title-See also:

• PAGE
• PAGE, THOMAS NELSON (1853- )
• PAGE, WILLIAM (1811-1885)

page, and with the general title of Histoires ou contes du temps passe avec des moralites . The See also:

• FRONTISPIECE (through the French, from Med. Lat. frontispicium, a front view, frons, frontis, forehead or front, and specere, to look at; the English spelling is a mistaken adaptation to " piece ")

frontispiece contained a See also:

• PLACARD (15th cent. Fr. plackart, from plaquier; mod. plaquer, to plaster)

placard with the inscription, Contes de ma See also:

• MERE
• MERE, ADALBERT (1838-1909)

mere foie . In 1876 See also:

• PAUL
• PAUL (PAULUS)

Paul See also:

• LACROIX, ANTOINE FRANCOIS ALFRED (1863— )
• LACROIX, PAUL (1806—1884)

Lacroix attributed the stories to the authorship of Perrault's son, P . Darmancour, who signed the See also:

• DEDICATION (Lat. dedicatio, from dedicare, to proclaim, to announce)

dedication, and was then, according to Lacroix, nineteen years old . See also:

• ANDREW (Gr. 'AvBp4as, manly)
• ANDREW, JOHN ALBION (1818-1867)

Andrew See also:

• LANG, ANDREW (1844— )
• LANG, KARL HEINRICH, RITTER VON (1764-1835)

Lang has suggested that the son was a See also:

• CHILD
• CHILD, FRANCIS JAMES (1825-1896)
• CHILD, L
• CHILD, LYDIA MARIA (1802-1880)
• CHILD, SIR FRANCIS (1642-1713)
• CHILD, SIR JOHN (d. 1690)
• CHILD, SIR JOSIAH (163o - 1699)

child, not a See also:

• YOUNG
• YOUNG, A
• YOUNG, ARTHUR (1741-1820)
• YOUNG, BRIGHAM (1801-1877)
• YOUNG, CHARLES MAYNE (1777–1856)
• YOUNG, EDWARD (1683–1765)
• YOUNG, JAMES (1811-1883)
• YOUNG, THOMAS (1773-1829)

young See also:

• MAN
• MAN, ISLE OF (anc. Mona)

man of nineteen, that he really wrote down the stories as he heard them, and that they were then edited by his father . This supposition would explain the mixture of naivete and See also:

• SATIRE (Lat. satira, satura; see below)

satire in the See also:

• TEXT (Lat. textum, woven fabric, from texere, to weave)

text . Perrault's other works include his Memoires (in which he was assisted by his brother Claude), giving much valuable See also:

• INFORMATION (from Lat. informare, to give shape or form to, to represent, describe)

information on Colbert's See also:

• MINISTRY

ministry; an Eneide travestie written in collaboration with his two See also:

• BROTHERS, RICHARD (1757-1824)

brothers, and Les Hommes See also:

• ILLUSTRES

illustres qui ont paru en France See also:

• PENDANT (through Fr. from Lat. pendere, to hang)

pendant ce siecle (2 vols., 1696-1700) . He died on the 16th of May 1703, in Paris .

His son, Perrault d'Arma-Court, was the author of a well-known See also:

• BOOK

book, Contes des fees, containing the See also:

• STORY, JOHN (c. 1510-1571)
• STORY, JOSEPH (1779-1845)
• STORY, ROBERT HERBERT (1835-1907)
• STORY, WILLIAM WETMORE (1819—1895)

story of See also:

• CINDERELLA (i.e. little cinder girl)

Cinderella, &c . Except the tales, Perrault's works have not recently been re-printed . Of these there are many See also:

• MODERN

modern See also:

• EDITIONS

editions, e.g. by Paul Lacroix (1876), and by A . See also:

• LEFEBVRE, PIERRE FRANCOIS JOSEPH
• LEFEBVRE, TANNEGUY (TANAQUILLUS FABER) (1615-1672)

Lefebvre (" Nouvelle collection Jannet," 1875) ; also Perrault's Popular Tales (See also:

• OXFORD
• OXFORD, EARLS OF
• OXFORD, EDWARD DE VERE, 17TH EARL
• OXFORD, JOHN DE VERE, 13TH EARL OF (1443-1513)
• OXFORD, PROVISIONS OF
• OXFORD, ROBERT DE VERE, 9TH EARL OF (1362-1392)
• OXFORD, ROBERT HARLEY, 1ST

Oxford, 1888), which contains the French text edited by Andrew Lang, with an introduction, and an examination of the See also:

• SOURCES

sources of each story . , See also Hippolyte Rigault, Hist. de la querelle des anciens et des modernes (1856) .