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[[File:Charles Perrault - Versailles MV 2924.jpg|thumb|350px|Charles Perrault, in 1671.]]
'''Charles Perrault''' (1628-1703) was a 17th century Frenchman who wrote [[Fairy Tale|fairy tales]] with remarkable sticking power. If it didn't come from [[Hans Christian Andersen|Andersen]] or [[The Brothers Grimm (creator)|the Grimms]], chances are good that Perrault wrote it... or, at least, wrote it down.
Perrault was already a renowned writer when he turned his hand to fairy tales, and, in 1697, published ''Histoires ou Contes du Temps passé'' ("Tales and Stories of the Past [[An Aesop|with Morals]]"), but the book subsequently became better known under it's subtitle ''Les Contes de ma Mère l’Oye'' a.k.a. ''Tales of Mother Goose''. Note that this is technically the same Mother Goose who is the personification of [[Nursery Rhyme]], but at that time she was still connected to fairy tales. The book was initially published under the name of his ''son'', presumably because he feared criticism for writing in a "childish" genre.
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