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Article: Charles Perrault: Memoirs of My Life.(Book Review)
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- April 1, 1990
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Charles Perrault: Memoirs of My Life. Edited and translated by Jeanne Morgan Zarucchi. Columbia: University of Missouri Press, 1989. $22.00. (h.b.)
Charles Perrault (1628-1703) is best known as the author of Histoires ou Contes du temps passe, avec des moralitez, which, in turn, are better known as some of our bestloved fairy tales, including "Sleeping Beauty," "Little Red Riding Hood," and "Cinderella." But as Jeanne Zarucchi informs us in her helpful introduction to his memoirs, Perrault was not only a distinguished civil servant during the reign of Louis XIV but a member of a remarkable bourgeois family. In fact, the most fascinating portion of the memoirs, ...