India: The search engine giant google celebrates 388th birthday of Charles Perrualt today. Perrault is the father of the fairy tales such as Cinderella, Little Red riding Hood, Sleeping beauty and many more. Google honors the French Lawayer on this special day with its doodle.
The best known of his tales include Le Petit Chaperon rouge (Little Red Riding Hood), Cendrillon (Cinderella), Le Chat Botté (Puss in Boots), La Belle au bois dormant (The Sleeping Beauty) and La Barbe bleue (Bluebeard).
Perrault was born in Paris to a wealthy bourgeois family, the seventh child of Pierre Perrault and Paquette Le Clerc. He attended good schools and studied law before embarking on a career in government service, following in the footsteps of his father and older brother Jean.
Some of Perrault’s versions of old stories may have influenced the German versions published by the Brothers Grimm 200 years later. Perrault was an influential figure in the 17th-century French literary scene, and was the leader of the Modern faction during the Quarrel of the Ancients and the Moderns.
