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French author (1628-1703)

Also known as: C. Perrault, Шарль Перро, شارل بيرو, 샤를 페로, シャルル・ペロー, 夏尔·佩罗

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Contemporary French salon fairy tales with ornate, courtly storytelling that coined the term 'conte de fées'. (AI reason)
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Jacob Grimm1785–1863
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Collected folk fairy tales sharing many of the same tale types, such as Cinderella and Little Red Riding Hood. (AI reason)
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Edited and stylized folk fairy tales overlapping heavily with Perrault's repertoire. (AI reason)
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Literary fairy tales with moral undertones and a crafted narrative voice. (AI reason)
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Giambattista Basile1566–1632
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Baroque literary versions of fairy tales such as Cinderella and Sleeping Beauty that preceded Perrault's. (AI reason)
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Jean de La Fontaine1621–1695
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Elegant French classical verse fables ending with witty morals. (AI reason)
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Giovanni Francesco Straparola1480–
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Renaissance tale collection containing early literary fairy tales, including a Puss in Boots precursor. (AI reason)
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Gabrielle-Suzanne de Villeneuve1685–1755
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Wrote the original long-form French fairy tale of Beauty and the Beast in the salon tradition. (AI reason)
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Andrew Lang1844–1912
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Collected classic fairy tales from many traditions, Perrault's among them, in the colored Fairy Books. (AI reason)
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