Essay

For discussion board 2:

Very simple: compare and contrast these two sets of stories.

· Background

 

Charles Perrault (1628-1703) was a member of the Académie Française and a leading intellectual of his time. Ironically, his dialogue Parallèles des anciens et des modernes(Parallels between the Ancients and the Moderns), 1688-1697, which compared the authors of antiquity unfavorably to modern writers, served as a forerunner for the Age of Enlightenment in Europe, an era that was not always receptive to tales of magic and fantasy.

Perrault published these "fairy tales" (a genre he defined, if not invented) under his son Pierre's name, certain that a serious man such as himself should not be associated with stories of this kind.

Never out-of-date, 2015 saw the release of another Cinderella film (there have been countless) 

and a Google Doodle for Perrault.

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1661199/

http://www.google.com/doodles/charles-perraults-388th-birthday

Fairy Tales in the Real World

 

You can go to the Breteuil Chateau in France (not far from Paris) held by the Perrault family.  On the grounds and through the house are wax vignettes of the more well-known fairy tales.  You can see pictures of some of these scenes here:

http://www.breteuil.fr/en/Perrault-Fairy-Tales/seven-fairy-tales.html