WRITER

Charles Perrault

1628 - 1703

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Charles Perrault ( peh-ROH, 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 (Stories or Tales from Past Times). Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Charles Perrault has received more than 3,061,925 page views. His biography is available in 80 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 77 in 2019). Charles Perrault is the 71st most popular writer (down from 67th in 2019), the 58th most popular biography from France (up from 62nd in 2019) and the 18th most popular French Writer.

Charles Perrault is most famous for his fairy tales.

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  • 78.85

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  • 80

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 11.54

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  • 3.23

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

Notable Works

Cinderella
1886
The story of Blue Beard
Bluebeard is a wealthy and powerful nobleman who has been married several times to beautiful women who have all mysteriously vanished. When Bluebeard visits his neighbor and asks to marry one of his daughters, the girls are terrified.
1895
Little Red Riding Hood
A little girl meets a hungry wolf in the forest on the way to visit her grandmother.
1896
Puss in Boots
A poor young man gains a fortune and meets a beautiful princess when his cat outwits an evil giant.
1865
Sleeping beauty in the woods
1840

Among WRITERS

Among writers, Charles Perrault ranks 71 out of 7,302. Before him are Umberto Eco, Heinrich Heine, Romain Rolland, Bertolt Brecht, Nikolai Gogol, and Li Bai. After him are Milan Kundera, Robert Frost, Theodor Herzl, Jorge Luis Borges, Václav Havel, and Arthur Rimbaud.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1628, Charles Perrault ranks 1. After him are Marcello Malpighi, Jacob van Ruisdael, John Bunyan, Sophie Amalie of Brunswick-Lüneburg, Ferdinand Charles, Archduke of Austria, Muazzez Sultan, François Girardon, François-Henri de Montmorency, duc de Luxembourg, Emmanuel Philibert, Prince of Carignano, Tokugawa Mitsukuni, and Lucrezia Barberini. Among people deceased in 1703, Charles Perrault ranks 2. Before him is Robert Hooke. After him are Mustafa II, Man in the Iron Mask, John Wallis, Vincenzo Viviani, Johann Christoph Bach, Samuel Pepys, Ilona Zrínyi, Erik Dahlbergh, Phetracha, and Nicolas de Grigny.

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In France

Among people born in France, Charles Perrault ranks 58 out of 6,770. Before him are Henri Becquerel (1852), Georges Bizet (1838), André-Marie Ampère (1775), Romain Rolland (1866), Gustave Eiffel (1832), and Cardinal Richelieu (1585). After him are Jean-Auguste-Dominique Ingres (1780), Sarah Bernhardt (1844), Francis I of France (1494), Claudius (-10), Arthur Rimbaud (1854), and Louis Philippe I (1773).

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Among WRITERS In France

Among writers born in France, Charles Perrault ranks 18. Before him are Stendhal (1783), Gustave Flaubert (1821), Simone de Beauvoir (1908), Octave Mirbeau (1848), Marcel Proust (1871), and Romain Rolland (1866). After him are Arthur Rimbaud (1854), François Rabelais (1494), George Sand (1804), Marquis de Sade (1740), André Gide (1869), and Jean de La Fontaine (1621).

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