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Charles Perrault

1628 - 1703

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Charles Perrault ( perr-OH, US also pə-ROH, French: [ʃaʁl pɛʁo]; 12 January 1628 – 16 May 1703) was a French author and member of the Académie Française. He laid the foundations for a new literary genre, the fairy tale, with his works derived from earlier folk tales, published in his 1697 book Histoires ou contes du temps passé. The best known of his tales include "Little Red Riding Hood", "Cinderella", "Puss in Boots", "Sleeping Beauty", and "Bluebeard". Some of Perrault's versions of old stories influenced the German versions published by the Brothers Grimm more than 100 years later. Read more on Wikipedia

His biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. Charles Perrault is the 74th most popular writer (down from 71st in 2019), the 67th most popular biography from France (down from 58th in 2019) and the 18th most popular French Writer.

Charles Perrault is most famous for his fairy tales.

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Among writers, Charles Perrault ranks 74 out of 7,302. Before him are Jorge Luis Borges, Stefan Zweig, Thomas Mann, Arthur Conan Doyle, Robert Frost, and Romain Rolland. After him are Umberto Eco, Giacomo Casanova, Sappho, Toni Morrison, George R. R. Martin, and Lord Byron.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1628, Charles Perrault ranks 1. After him are Jacob van Ruisdael, Marcello Malpighi, Sophie Amalie of Brunswick-Lüneburg, John Bunyan, François-Henri de Montmorency, duc de Luxembourg, Muazzez Sultan, François Girardon, Ferdinand Charles, Archduke of Austria, Emmanuel Philibert, Prince of Carignano, Carlo Cignani, and Tokugawa Mitsukuni. Among people deceased in 1703, Charles Perrault ranks 1. After him are Robert Hooke, Mustafa II, Man in the Iron Mask, John Wallis, Vincenzo Viviani, Johann Christoph Bach, Ilona Zrínyi, Samuel Pepys, Erik Dahlbergh, Maria de Dominici, and Nicolas de Grigny.

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In France

Among people born in France, Charles Perrault ranks 67 out of 6,770. Before him are Napoleon II (1811), Louis XVII of France (1785), Gustave Eiffel (1832), Cardinal Richelieu (1585), Maurice Ravel (1875), and Romain Rolland (1866). After him are Hector Berlioz (1803), Auguste Rodin (1840), Georges Bizet (1838), Claude Debussy (1862), Charles XIV John of Sweden (1763), and Francis I of France (1494).

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Among WRITERS In France

Among writers born in France, Charles Perrault ranks 18. Before him are Denis Diderot (1713), Émile Zola (1840), Gustave Flaubert (1821), Octave Mirbeau (1848), Stendhal (1783), and Romain Rolland (1866). After him are Guy de Maupassant (1850), Alexandre Dumas fils (1824), Arthur Rimbaud (1854), François Rabelais (1494), W. Somerset Maugham (1874), and Marquis de Sade (1740).

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