Charles Perrault autobiography. Charles Perrault - fairy tales
Poetic tale starts with a description happy life a brilliant king, his fair and faithful wife, and their lovely little daughter. They lived in a magnificent palace, in a rich and flourishing country. In the royal stable, next to the frisky horses, "a well-fed donkey hung its ears peacefully." “The Lord so adjusted his womb that if he sometimes crap, it was with gold and silver.”
But here, “in the prime of her magnificent years, the ruler’s wife was suddenly stricken with an illness.” Dying, she asks her husband "to go down the aisle a second time only with the chosen one, who will finally be more beautiful and worthy of me." The husband “swore to her through the river of crazy tears in everything she was waiting for ... Among widowers, he was one of the most noisy! He cried so much, sobbed so much ... "However," a year has not passed, as we are talking about shameless matchmaking. But the beauty of the deceased is surpassed only by her own daughter, and the father, inflamed with a criminal passion, decides to marry the princess. In desperation, she goes to her godmother - a good fairy who lives "in the wilderness of forests, in cave darkness, between shells, corals, mother-of-pearl." In order to upset a terrible wedding, the godmother advises the girl to demand from her father a wedding dress in the shade of clear days. "The task is cunning - not feasible in any way." But the king of tailors called the masters and ordered from high throne chairs to tomorrow the gift was ready - otherwise how could he have hung them for an hour! And in the morning they bring "a wonderful gift from the tailors." Then the fairy advises the goddaughter to demand silk "lunar, unusual - he will not be able to get it." The king calls the gold seamstresses - and in four days the dress is ready. The princess, with delight, almost submits to her father, but, "forced by her godmother", asks for an outfit of "wonderful sunny flowers." The king threatens the jeweler terrible torture- and in less than a week he creates a "porphyry of porphyry". - What a sight - new clothes! - the fairy whispers contemptuously and orders to demand the skin of a precious donkey from the sovereign. But the passion of the king is stronger than stinginess - and the skin is immediately brought to the princess.
Here, “the stern godmother found that disgust is inappropriate on the paths of good,” and on the advice of the fairy, the princess promises the king to marry him, and herself, throwing a vile skin over her shoulders and smearing her face with soot, runs out of the palace. The girl puts wonderful dresses in a box. The fairy gives the goddaughter a magic twig: “As long as it is in your hand, the box will crawl after you in the distance, like a mole hiding under the ground.”
The royal messengers look for the fugitive all over the country in vain. The courtiers are in despair: “no wedding, that means no feasts, no cakes, that means no cakes ... The chaplain was most upset of all: he did not have time to eat in the morning and said goodbye to the wedding treat.”
And the princess, dressed as a beggar, wanders along the road, looking for “at least the place of a poultry house, even a swineherd. But the poor slobs themselves spit after them.” Finally, the farmer takes the unfortunate woman as a servant - “clean up the pig stalls and wash the greasy rags. Now in the closet behind the kitchen is the princess's yard. The impudent villagers and “the masculine disgustingly disturb her”, and even mock the poor thing. Her only joys are that, locking herself up in her closet on Sunday, washing herself, dressing up in one or another marvelous dress and turning around in front of the mirror. "Oh, Moonlight slightly pales her, and the sun makes her a little fat ... All better dress blue!"
And in these parts "kept a brilliant poultry yard the king is luxurious and omnipotent. This park was often visited by the prince with a crowd of courtiers. "The princess has already fallen in love with him from a distance." Oh, if he loved girls in donkey skin! the beauty sighed. And the prince - "a heroic look, a fighting grip" - somehow came across a poor hut at dawn and saw through the crack a beautiful princess in a marvelous outfit. Struck by her noble appearance, the young man did not dare to enter the shack, but, returning to the palace, “did not eat, did not drink, did not dance; he lost interest in hunting, opera, amusements and girlfriends" - and thought only of the mysterious beauty. He was told that a dirty beggar woman, Donkey Skin, lived in a squalid hut. The prince does not believe. "He weeps bitterly, he sobs" - and demands that Donkeyskin bake him a pie. The loving queen mother will not contradict her son, and the princess, “hearing these news”, hurries to knead the dough. “They say: working extraordinarily, she ... quite, quite by accident! - I dropped a ring into the dough. But "my opinion - there was her calculation." After all, she saw how the prince looked at her through the crack!
Having received the pie, the patient "devoured it with such greedy passion that, really, it seems like a fair amount of luck that he did not swallow the ring." Since the young man in those days "was losing weight terribly ... the doctors unanimously decided: the prince is dying of love." Everyone begs him to marry - but he agrees to marry only one who can put a tiny ring with an emerald on her finger. All virgins and widows begin to thin their fingers.
However, neither the noblewomen, nor the cute grisettes, nor the cooks and laborers, the ring fit. But then "from under the skin of a donkey appeared a fist that looked like a lily." Laughter stops. Everyone is shocked. The princess goes to change - and an hour later appears in the palace, shining with dazzling beauty and luxurious outfit. The king and queen are happy, the prince is happy. Bishops from all over the world are called to the wedding. The sensible father of the princess, seeing his daughter, cries for joy. The prince is delighted: "what a lucky chance that his father-in-law is such a mighty ruler." "Sudden thunder... The queen of the fairies, the witness of the misfortunes of the past, descends her goddaughter forever to glorify virtue..."
Moral: "It is better to endure terrible suffering than to change the debt of honor." After all, “youth is able to satisfy itself with a crust of bread and water, while it keeps an outfit in a golden casket.”
Blue Beard
There was once a very rich man who had a blue beard. She so disfigured him that, seeing this man, all the women fled in fear. His neighbor, a noble lady, had two daughters of wondrous beauty. He asked to marry any of these girls to him. But none of them wanted to have a spouse with a blue beard. They did not like the fact that this man had already been married several times and no one knew what fate befell his wives.
Bluebeard invited the girls, their mother, friends and girlfriends to one of his luxurious country houses, where they had fun for a whole week. And now it began to seem to the youngest daughter that the beard of the owner of the house was not so blue, and that he himself was a very respectable person. Soon the wedding was decided.
A month later, Bluebeard told his wife that he was leaving on business for six weeks. He asked her not to be bored, to have fun, to call her friends, gave her the keys to all the chambers, pantries, caskets and chests - and forbade her to enter only one small room.
His wife promised to obey him, and he left. Immediately, without waiting for the messengers, the girlfriends came running. They were eager to see all the riches of Bluebeard, but they were afraid to come in his presence. Now, admiring the house full of priceless treasures, the guests enviously extolled the happiness of the newlywed, but she could only think of a small room ...
Finally, the woman abandoned the guests and rushed headlong down the secret staircase, almost breaking her neck. Curiosity conquered fear - and the beauty opened the door with trepidation ... In dark room the floor was covered in gore, and the bodies of Bluebeard's former wives he had killed hung on the walls. In horror, the newlywed dropped the key. Picking it up, she locked the door and, trembling, rushed to her room. There, the woman noticed that the key was stained with blood. The unfortunate woman cleaned the stain for a long time, but the key was magic, and the blood, wiped off on one side, appeared on the other ...
Bluebeard returned the same evening. His wife greeted him with ostentatious delight. The next day he demanded the keys from the poor thing. Her hands trembled so much that he immediately guessed everything and asked: “Where is the key to the small room?” After various excuses, I had to bring a dirty key. Why is he covered in blood? inquired Bluebeard. - Did you enter the small room? Well, ma'am, that's where you'll stay now."
The woman, sobbing, threw herself at her husband's feet. Beautiful and sad, she would have softened even a stone, but Bluebeard's heart was harder than stone. “Let me at least pray before I die,” the poor thing asked. "Give you seven minutes!" - answered the villain. Left alone, the woman called her sister and said to her: “Sister Anna, look if my brothers are coming? They promised to visit me today.” The girl climbed the tower and from time to time said to the unfortunate woman: “There is nothing to see, only the sun is burning and the grass is shining in the sun.” And Bluebeard, clutching a large knife in his hand, shouted: “Come here!” - "One more minute!" - answered the poor thing, and kept asking sister Anna, could you see the brothers? The girl noticed clouds of dust in the distance - but it was a herd of sheep. At last she saw two riders on the horizon...
Then Bluebeard roared throughout the house. The trembling wife came out to him, and he, grabbing her by the hair, was about to cut off her head, but at that moment a dragoon and a musketeer burst into the house. Drawing their swords, they rushed at the villain. He tried to run, but the brothers of the beauty pierced him with steel blades.
The wife inherited all the wealth of Bluebeard. She gave a dowry to her sister Anna when she married a young nobleman who had long loved her; the young widow helped each of the brothers to achieve the captain's rank, and then she herself married a good man who helped her forget the horrors of her first marriage.
Moral: “Yes, curiosity is a scourge. It confuses everyone, it was born on the mountain to mortals.
Riquet with a tuft
A certain queen had such an ugly son that the courtiers for a long time doubted whether he was human. But Kind fairy she assured me that he would be very smart and would be able to endow with his mind the person whom he fell in love with. Indeed, as soon as he learned to babble, the child began to say sweet things. He had a small tuft on his head, which is why the prince was nicknamed: Rike with a tuft.
Seven years later the queen neighboring country gave birth to two daughters; seeing the first - beautiful as day, - the mother was so delighted that she almost became ill, while the second girl turned out to be extremely ugly. But the same fairy predicted that the ugly woman would be very smart, and the beauty would be stupid and awkward, but she would be able to endow beauty with someone she liked.
The girls grew up - and the beauty always had much less success than her smart sister. And then one day in the forest, where the silly girl went to mourn her bitter fate, the unfortunate woman met with the freak Ricke. Having fallen in love with her from portraits, he came to the neighboring kingdom... The girl told Rika about her misfortune, and he said that if the princess decides to marry him in a year, she will immediately become wiser. The beauty foolishly agreed - and immediately spoke so witty and elegant that Riquet thought if he had not given her more intelligence than he had left to himself? ..
The girl returned to the palace, amazed everyone with her mind and soon became her father's main adviser; all the fans turned away from her ugly sister, and the fame of the beautiful and wise princess thundered all over the world. Many princes wooed the beauty, but she made fun of them all, until finally one rich, handsome and intelligent prince appeared ...
Walking through the forest and thinking about the choice of the groom, the girl suddenly heard a dull noise under her feet. At the same moment, the earth opened up, and the princess saw people preparing a sumptuous feast. “This is for Riquet, tomorrow is his wedding,” they explained to the beauty. And then the shocked princess remembered that exactly a year had passed since her meeting with the freak.
And soon Riquet himself appeared in a magnificent wedding dress. However, the wiser princess flatly refused to marry such an ugly man. And then Riquet revealed to her that she could endow her chosen one with beauty. The princess sincerely wished that Riquet became the most beautiful and amiable prince in the world - and a miracle happened!
True, others argue that the point here is not magic, but love. The princess, admired by the intelligence and loyalty of her admirer, stopped noticing his ugliness. The hump began to give the prince's posture a special importance, the terrible limp turned into a manner of leaning a little to one side, the slanting eyes acquired a captivating languor, and the big red nose seemed mysterious and even heroic.
The king gladly agreed to give his daughter for such wise prince, and the next day they played a wedding, for which smart Rike had everything ready.
Fairy tale " donkey skin"Authorship of Charles Perrault will appeal to every child and will lead to reflections of an adult. This work was done in mild form, but with specific overtones and main idea. Read summary This article will help this story, analysis, to understand the main characters deeper.
The beginning of the story
The plot in the fairy tale "Donkey Skin" begins in a standard way. Without specifying a specific place, it tells about the richest and most powerful king. Everything was fine with him and his wife, only they could not give birth to children. They decided to take care of the young princess, whose father was a friend of the king, but had recently died. The girl was immediately taken for her own daughter, and she grew up under the strict supervision of her new parents. Her beauty could overshadow any other of the fair sex. The joy of this helped to quench the pain of the inability to give birth to her child. Soon a new trouble visited the king's house in the fairy tale "Donkey Skin" in Russian. The queen fell ill, and the doctors said that she would no longer be able to get out of bed. The woman herself felt this, and therefore asked the king to marry a second time only to that person who would be better and more beautiful than herself. The man promised to fulfill the wish, after which the queen died. The funeral was over, and the ministers began to ask the head of state to choose a new wife for himself. By this they wanted to pull him out of his state of constant grief and drunkenness.
New solution
In the work “Donkey Skin”, the king answered all his assistants in management that he would never marry. The reason for this is a dying promise, and yet better women he can't find. Then the chief minister pointed to the adopted princess, who was not in vain considered the most beautiful girl in the state. Then the king took a closer look and really decided to tie the knot with the pupil. When her daughter found out about this, she was in despair. She wanted to find a lover for herself, and the thought of marrying her father was horrifying. Then the girl went to the sorceress, who promised to help if she agreed to follow all her instructions. The first of these was a request to the king for a sky-colored dress. The head of the state immediately ordered all the masters to make it, or as a punishment, everyone would be threatened with hanging. They managed to do it, but the result only frightened the princess more and testified to the determination of the king. She again ran to the witch, and she said to order a moon-colored dress. The king again summoned the best professionals in the field of tailoring with a formidable order, and they managed to fulfill the desire of the princess. This only further upset the young pupil, who again decided to turn to the sorceress. A woman with magical skills named Lilac came up with new task- the dress is as shiny as the sun itself. In the fairy tale “Donkey Skin”, the author shows by this the unwillingness of the princess to put up with her fate.
Continued resistance
In the fairy tale "Donkey Skin", the sorceress wanted to buy time to think about next steps. Meanwhile, the king again fulfilled the princess's request for a third dress. Everyone was delighted with such products, but the beautiful heroine did not share their joy. For the fourth time, she had to ask Lilac for help, and she again agreed to do it. This time, the sorceress guessed to advise the girl to ask the king to kill his beloved donkey. The girl triumphed, because the head of the country would refuse to fulfill such an insane desire. The king was surprised at first, but then immediately gave the order to kill the donkey and bring the girl his skin. The princess was completely desperate, but just at that moment the sympathetic sorceress appeared again, who ordered to leave the palace immediately. A chest with dresses will follow the girl underground, and to call it, you should hit the magic wand that the Lilac gave. The only condition for the princess is to wear a donkey skin. In gratitude for the help, the pupil of the king kissed good woman, complied with the requirements and left the palace. The king was frightened by the disappearance of the future bride, and he ordered the servants to go in pursuit. Then the sorceress again came to the rescue, and made her invisible to the eyes of all the envoys of the head of state.
Looking for a new home
In Charles Perrault's fairy tale "Donkey Skin", the princess tried to find a home for herself where she could at least serve. Because of her ugly appearance, no one wanted to take her in, but in one big house the hostess nevertheless agreed to receive the princess. The girl was sent to work in the kitchen, where everyone laughed terribly at her because of her appearance. The good mistress forbade this and protected the new worker. Once in the lake, she saw her appearance, which horrified her. She cleansed herself of the dirt, but again put on the skin in order to remain unrecognizable. On holidays, when there was no need to serve in the kitchen, the princess dressed up in dresses, but in public everyone saw her only in a donkey cape. That is why in the work of Charles Perrault "Donkey Skin" she was given the nickname of the same name. Once, on the day of the holiday, the prince, who was traveling from hunting, was visiting the house. During the rest, the guy began to wander around the house and noticed an inconspicuous room in a dark corridor. For the sake of curiosity, he decided to look through the crack and saw a girl of dazzling beauty there. Then the prince ran to the hostess with questions about that princess in the dress. He was told about a dirty maid who wears a donkey skin instead of clothes. Out of pity, the mistress took her to work around the house. The guy went home, but the image did not go out of his head. He regretted that he had not come in then to make acquaintance, and because of such thoughts he soon fell completely ill.
The torment of a young heir to the throne
In the fairy tale “Donkey Skin”, the parents of the prince wanted to help their own son in every possible way. To their questions about what he desires most, the guy replied that the pie baked by that girl. By nickname, the courtier immediately realized that it was about a servant from a house nearby. A messenger was sent to her with a wish for a pie for young man. Then the princess closed herself in her room, kneaded the dough, but dropped the ring there. A man from the yard took the product and took it to the heir to the throne. He ate it greedily and almost choked on the ring. The guy realized that he was from the finger of the very beauty that opened his eyes in that room. Then he began to kiss him in every possible way and hide him under the pillow. Such a hobby caused bewilderment among doctors. He couldn't think of anything else but Donkey Skin, but he was afraid to tell his family about it. Mental torment only served as a catalyst for the disease. Doctors could not understand the symptoms for a long time, but later they guessed that the reason was love. Parents, without thinking for a long time, began to ask their son about the chosen one of the heart. The king promised him marriage to the girl who made him suffer so much. The guy was touched by the desire of his mother and father to help, and therefore he told them everything. The prince told that the owner of this ring is his beloved. Immediately after this, messengers were sent out to call the girls to the palace to try on the jewelry.
The search for beauty
Since the young prince did not know who she was, the beauty that enchanted him, her search began with the help of a ring. Quotes from the "Donkey Skin" indicate that the ladies of the court tried in every possible way to make their fingers thinner in order to put a ring on them. Their attempts were unsuccessful, and therefore after famous ladies seamstresses were invited. They also failed to put a small ring on their fingers. The turn came to the servants, who, due to work, were unable to put a ring on their hardened fingers. The same fate befell cooks and other ordinary working women. Not a single candidate passed the test, and therefore the parents were already desperate to find a girl dear to their son's heart. After the failure, the prince asked if the Donkey Skin had been brought in to be tried on. He was told that she was not invited because of her inappropriate appearance. She is dirty, and her appearance only breeds jokes. Despite this, the offspring of the royal family gave the order to the courtiers to bring the girl to the palace without delay. The men laughed, but did not refuse to obey the order. At this time, the princess heard the beat of drums and guessed that the ring dropped into the pie was the reason for everything. She soon learned that people had been sent for her. Then the girl chose the best outfit and began to wait for messengers from the prince.
Fairy tale finale
The final content of "Donkey Skin" tells how people from the palace came to the girl and announced their desire to marry the prince himself. It was said with derision, but the princess paid no attention to it. Together they went to the castle, where the heir to the royal family was waiting for her. When a girl in a donkey skin appeared on top of his eyes, longing came upon him. He could not believe that this was the dazzling beauty that had so captivated his heart. The prince asked if she lived in that dark corridor in the mistress's house, and received an affirmative answer. Then the guy asked her hand to try on the ring. To everyone's surprise, the maid had incredibly fragile hands, and the jewelry easily sat on her finger. It was at this moment that the princess threw off her dirty outfit and showed true beauty. The prince recognized the love of his life in the princess, and therefore immediately rushed to her. The parents hugged the girl and asked if she wanted to connect her life with their son. She did not have time to speak in response, as the sorceress Lilac appeared from the ceiling on her lovely chariot. This woman told the people around her the story of the girl, which caused considerable surprise among all the nobles and servants present. The truth only added to the desire to marry the girl to his son with the king and queen. The rulers of all the earth were invited to the wedding, but the young were only concerned about themselves, and not about the luxury surrounding them.
Analysis of an important aspect
If we analyze the fairy tale "Donkey Skin", then the first important thought can be noted the theme of external beauty. By bad clothes and dirt, the author means unkemptness. Nature can endow a person with great beauty, but if you do not maintain it at the proper level, then no one will notice it. The princess knew about her attractiveness, but because of the desire of her father, she was forced to wear a donkey skin. About my appearance the girl guessed only after looking into the water surface. After that, she already wore it in order to continue hiding from her father. The author skillfully demonstrates that people are inherently unable to discern beauty if there is only a repulsive appearance outside. By this, he also confirms that most members of society are used to judging by the cover and do not try to discern something more in a person. Charles Perrault beat it through a fairly simple children's story where everything must end well. IN real life many people under the pressure of certain factors forget about self-development. By this they lose their internal and external attractiveness, putting on the invisible skin of a killed donkey. From this we can conclude what the tale teaches. "Donkey skin" is a work for children, and it says that outer beauty and the inner should always be in harmony, but this is only one side of the analysis this work.
Another important thought
In the tale, the author paid much attention to the first part, namely the reasons for the appearance of a donkey skin. Here is shown a case of blind stubbornness, which leads to disastrous consequences. The king clearly decided to marry his daughter, albeit an adopted one, and the girl always dreamed of love for another person. She seeks help from a sorceress who invents different ways avoid marriage. Tailoring dresses of any color shows how strong stubbornness can be. This feeling prevents the king from seeing the true desires of his daughter. He is only interested in what she overshadows with her beauty ex-wife, and therefore he will fulfill the queen's dying wish in marriage to her. the only way out is an escape from the palace, which is what the princess decides to do, and for shelter she changes her appearance with the skin of a slain donkey.
Charles Perrault perfectly demonstrates the relationship between two people, when one of them blindly strives for his goal. In this case, for the other individual, escaping this stubbornness is the only right exit. Sometimes it can be a temporary departure to increase the distance, and it often happens that this is where the relationship ends between people. That is why the main idea of "Donkey Skin" is the need to pay attention to loved ones and listen to their desires. The author played this topic successfully, and also became one of the first to raise such issues in the literature.
Film of the same name based on the work
In 1982, the director shot a film of the same name based on famous fairy tale Charles Perrot. The writers made their own approach to the story and changed the story a bit. The main characters of "Donkey Skin" were only the princess, who received the name Teresa, and the sorceress. The plot begins with the fact that the evil sorceress predicted big troubles for the girl at birth. They started from the moment the princess ran away from her wedding. They wanted to forcefully marry her to an unloved person, and she wanted to always be with Jacques, an impoverished prince from another kingdom. After your escape main character forced to take the form of a poor maid and wander around the world like that. The police are even looking for her all over the earth in order to punish her for her misconduct. Teresa hopes to help Jacques with the help of a magic fairy ring and live happily with him until old age. A lot of people left reviews about the film "Donkey Skin". The main advantage was noted easy perception occurring events. The picture was shot with an emphasis on the children's audience, and the kids will be pleased to watch this. The story is kind, without the presence of violence, which has become popular even in animated cartoons modernity. The production is made with love, every aspect of the story is presented as simply as possible. The picture is recommended for viewing by parents with their children before going to bed or on a day off.
French literature
Charles Perrault
Biography
The great merit of Perrault is that he chose from the mass folk tales several stories and fixed their plot, which has not yet become final. He gave them a tone, a climate, a style characteristic of the 17th century, and yet very personal.
Among the storytellers who "legalized" the fairy tale in serious literature, the very first and honorable place is given to French writer Charles Perrault. Few of our contemporaries know that Perrault was a venerable poet of his time, an academician French Academy, author of famous scientific papers. But worldwide fame and recognition from posterity were brought to him not by his thick, serious books, but by beautiful fairy tales"Cinderella", "Puss in Boots", "Bluebeard".
Charles Perrault was born in 1628. The boy's family was concerned about the education of their children, and at the age of eight, Charles was sent to college. As historian Philippe Aries notes, school biography Perrault is a biography of a typical excellent student. During the training, neither he nor his brothers were ever beaten with rods - an exceptional case at that time.
After college, Charles took private law lessons for three years and eventually received a law degree.
At twenty-three, he returns to Paris and begins his career as a lawyer. Literary activity Perrault falls at a time when high society there is a fashion for fairy tales. Reading and listening to fairy tales is becoming one of the common hobbies of secular society, comparable only to the reading of detective stories by our contemporaries. Some choose to listen philosophical tales, others pay tribute to the old tales, which have come down in the retelling of grandmothers and nannies. Writers, trying to satisfy these requests, write down fairy tales, processing the plots familiar to them from childhood, and the oral fairy tale tradition gradually begins to turn into a written one.
However, Perrault did not dare to publish the tales under his own name, and the book he published contained the name of his eighteen-year-old son, P. Darmancourt. He was afraid that with all the love for "fabulous" entertainment, writing fairy tales would be perceived as a frivolous occupation, casting a shadow on the authority of a serious writer with its frivolity.
Perrault's fairy tales are based on famous folk story, which he presented with his usual talent and humor, omitting some details and adding new ones, "ennobling" the language. Most of all, these fairy tales were suitable for children. And it is Perrault that can be considered the founder of children's world literature and literary pedagogy.
Charles Perrault now we call him a storyteller, but in general during his lifetime (he was born in 1628, died in 1703). Charles Perrault was known as a poet and publicist, dignitary and academician. He was a lawyer, the first clerk of the French Minister of Finance Colbert.
When the Academy of France was created by Colbert in 1666, among its first members was Charles's brother, Claude Perrault, who shortly before this Charles had helped win the competition for the design of the facade of the Louvre. A few years later, Chars Perrault was also admitted to the Academy, and he was assigned to lead the work on the "General Dictionary French».
The history of his life is both personal and public, and politics mixed with literature, and literature, as it were, divided into what glorified Charles Perrault through the ages - fairy tales, and what remained transient. For example, Perrault became the author of the poem "The Age of Louis the Great", in which he glorified his king, but also - the work "Great People of France", voluminous "Memoirs" and so on and so forth. In 1695, a collection of poetic tales by Charles Perrault was published.
But the collection "Tales of Mother Goose, or Stories and Tales of Bygone Times with Teachings" was released under the name of Charles Perrault's son Pierre de Armancourt-Perrot. It was the son who in 1694, on the advice of his father, began to write down folk tales. Pierre Perrault died in 1699. In his memoirs, written a few months before his death (he died in 1703), Charles Perrault does not write anything about who was the author of fairy tales, or, to be more precise, literary record.
These memoirs, however, were published only in 1909, and already twenty years after the death of literature, academician and storyteller, in the 1724 edition of the book “Tales of Mother Goose” (which, by the way, immediately became a bestseller), authorship was first attributed to one Charles Perrault . In a word, there are many “blank spots” in this biography. The fate of the storyteller himself and his fairy tales, written in collaboration with his son Pierre, is for the first time in Russia described in such detail in Sergei Boyko's book Charles Perrault.
Perrault Charles (1628-1703) - poet, children's writer, Academician of the French Academy, author of famous scientific works.
Born in 1628. At the age of 8, young Charles was sent to college, where he studied perfectly with his brothers. For 3 years after graduation, she takes private lessons in law and becomes a certified lawyer.
At the age of 23, he comes to Paris, where he gets a job as a lawyer. At this time in secular society It became fashionable in France to read fairy tales and write them down. But Perrault's first tales were published under the name of P. Darmancourt, his 18-year-old son, in order to avoid spoiling the reputation of a serious writer with tales. Popularity during the life of Perrault came for his poetry and journalistic activity. He was a famous lawyer and the first manager of the finance minister Colbert.
In 1666, the Academy of France was established, of which Claude Perrault, brother of Charles, became one of the first members, for winning the competition for the design of the facade of the Louvre. Brother Charles Perrault helped win. A few years later, the writer also ended up at the Academy, where he led the process of creating the "General Dictionary of the French Language". Perrault glorified the person of the king in the poem "The Age of Louis the Great", wrote the works "Great People of France", "Memoirs", etc., but he gained world popularity for creating children's fairy tales. In 1695, a collection of fairy tales in verse, Tales of Mother Goose, or Stories and Tales of Bygone Times with Instructions, was published, which was signed by Pierre de Armancourt-Perrot. The poems for children were based on folklore stories in the author's processing, where the vernacular was transformed into literary form. Only 20 years after the death of the writer, the collection was republished in 1724 under the name of the real author and became a bestseller of those times. Following the recommendation of Charles Perrault in 1694, his son began to write down fairy tales. French people. In 1699, Pierre Perrault died.
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Charles Perrault's brief biography is set out in this article.
Charles Perrault short biography
WArles Perrault - French poet and a classicist critic, best known as the author of The Tales of Mother Goose.
Was born January 12, 1628 in Paris in the family of a parliamentary judge. He was the youngest of seven children. The Perrault family tried to provide children with a good education, so at the age of eight, Charles was sent to college in the north of France. However, the young man never finished his studies, deciding to pursue a legal career. But that also bored him quickly. Soon he became a clerk to his brother-architect, Claude Perrault, who became famous as the author of the east facade of the Louvre.
Despite the fact that Perrault became a prolific writer, his works of art almost did not survive, with the exception of fairy tales. The first work of the writer appeared in 1653. It was a poem in the comic style "The Walls of Troy, or the Origin of Burlesque." She did not bring great fame to the poet, but laid the foundation for his literary career. C. Perrault was trusted statesman and the de facto ruler of France after 1665, Jean Colbert. Thus, the writer could largely determine the policy of the court. In 1663 he was appointed secretary of the new Academy. However, after the death of Colbert (1683), he lost everything: the position of secretary and literary pension.
In the history of literature, Ch. Perrault is also known as the founder of the "controversy about the ancient and the new." So, in 1687, he published the poem "The Age of Louis the Great", and then dialogues about the parallels between ancient and new views on art and science. In his works, he singled out the art of the age of Louis, as an opportunity for progress and retreat from the immutable ancient ideal. He saw the future of literature in the development of the novel as a receiver ancient epic. In 1697, the collection Tales of Mother Goose appeared, which included 7 revised folk tales and one tale composed by Perrault himself. This was the tale "Rike-tuft", which widely glorified the writer.
