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Charles Perrault

Born on January 12, 1628

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Charles Perrault ( perr-OH, US also pə-ROH, French:; 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.

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