Charles Perrault was a writer who was born January 12, 1628, in Paris, France. Like his father, Charles was a lawyer, but he also wrote poetry and stories, including a parody of Virgil's Aeneid.
Charles also was interested in fairy tales and stories of the Orient. In 1697, shortly after the death of his wife, his collection of eight stories (including "Little Red Riding Hood," "Sleeping Beauty" and "Cinderella") was published in a book called "Histories and Tales of Long Ago, with Morals." The book's inscription read, "Tales of Mother Goose." some scholars have questioned whether Charles or his youngest son Pierre wrote the stories, with Charles editing them.
According to the encyclopedia, "between 1842 and 1913, there were no less than 233 editions of his fairy tales, by more than 60 different publishers, which amounted to an average of three or four publications annually."
- Little White Book, Diocese of Saginaw