Essay

Reading

At the link below, you can find translations of some of Perrault's more famous fairy tales (also known as "Mother Goose" stories).  Required reading below, although I won't be surprised if you go through them all.

1. Sleeping Beauty

2. Bluebeard

3. The Master Cat or Puss in Boots

4. The Fairies

5. Cinderella, or The Little Glass Slipper

http://www.angelfire.com/nb/classillus/images/perrault/perra.html

Note the lovely illustrations from this 19th century edition.  They are by Gustave Doré, an incredibly prolific illustrator of the 19th century; see this page from the Musée d”Orsay in Paris on an exhibit on the artist & his work:

http://www.musee-orsay.fr/en/events/exhibitions/in-the-musee-dorsay/exhibitions-in-the-musee-dorsay-more/article/gustave-dore-37172.html?S=1&tx_ttnews%5BbackPid%5D=254&cHash=2a50ac0116&print=1&no_cache=1&