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Charles Perrault, the author of Little Red Hood, Sleeping Beauty and Cinderella has been honoured by Google Doodles with an fascinating doodles on his 388th birthday.
Perrault was born on January 12, 1628 in Paris to a wealthy middle-class family, the seventh child of Perrault and Paquette Le Clerc.

Perrault was born in Paris in 1628, and was a lawyer before turning his hand to the written word. While the Brothers Grimm are thoroughly credited with form the fairy tale as we know it, Perrault in fact write out Le Chaperon redness, La Belle au bois sleeping and Cendrillon a full 200 years before.

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Charles Perrault

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Who is Charles Perrault?

Charles Perrault (born 12 January 1628 – dead May 16, 1703) was a French author and member of the Académie française. He laid the foundations for a new literary genre, the faerie fable, with his works derived from pre-present folk tales.

With the help of her fairy sponsor, a beautiful young girl mistreated by her stepmother and stepsisters attends the palace ball where she meets the prince whom she marries.