Charles Perrault 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.
Here is the Table of Contents:
Introduction to Students
About Perrault
About Perrault’s fairy tales
Suggestions of a few topics to explore as you read
Some notes on French grammar
The passé simple
Other literary tenses
The placement of object pronouns
Selected Bibliography
Selected English translations and French editions annotated in English
Selected biographical works on Perrault
Selected critical works on the Contes of Perrault
Selected critical works on the seventeenth-century French fairy tale
About the illustrations
About this edition
Histoires ou contes du temps passé: contes de ma mère l’Oie
Dedication: À Mademoiselle
La Belle au bois dormant
Le Petit Chaperon rouge
La Barbe bleue
Le Maître Chat, ou le Chat botté
Les Fées
Cendrillon, ou la Petite Pantoufle de verre
Riquet à la Houppe
Le Petit Poucet
French-English Glossary
ISBN 978-1-58977-122-2
Moliere & Co. #25