biography
pronunciation:
[peroh]
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| (1628–1703)
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| biography:
| Writer, born in Paris, France. He became a lawyer, and in 1663 was a secretary to Colbert. He wrote several poems, and engaged in debate over the relative merits of the ancients and the moderns, but is best known for the fairy tales published by him under the title Histoires ou contes du temps passé (1697), with the further title on the frontispiece, Contes de Ma Mère l'Oye (Mother Goose's Tales). They were translated into English by Robert Samber (1729). Collected from fables current in different times and among different peoples, the tales are among the most archetypal of their kind, such as ‘Sleeping Beauty’, ‘Red Riding Hood’, ‘Blue Beard’, ‘Puss in Boots’, ‘Cinderella’, and ‘Tom Thumb’. |
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