PERRAULT, par'n'l. I 703 A French critic be-t known r Mother Goo,.
eori, N. the nursery to e* f France. Ile rn .lannary 12. 11;2". in Paris. and wa- prepared r tl c bar, but ..,11 n k the bar for letter., winning ili-tinetion and an elec tion to the Aeademy thr ir..01 his and the patr nag. of Colbert. win made him had e it the bleyal Bureau of .1rehiteeture. He achieved no toriety in Init.; by it poem . n L. vi. eh .1. L. t v 1.• Grum!, wl.ich praised new writer- at the expen-e ,,f the old and -it brought on t ntr, very tween the and \I idern-. Atta 6. d I y Boilea v ). he defended hi. re -it it n 'n serie* of I. it, v 4710,11y ?web I Iols54-11ti , of more ingenuity than rat teal value, Better are l.i. PID -t ethos f 1. v hom et,* 11111VrIal y11s ,nit pan, pin./ Int 81, eb 11096-17111 . Rut thf r it f 1; to and two o• rot are t• eant hesid,• the I!, th• r torir I it '07 .
through h the P. rart- w, tir-t learned to ki,,,w sb, ping Ir to . tt/e Ift /Ow Ro art!. P it . Mr. !rid
loam Thu which. with 1..elanne 41•Aulnuy Coldilocks and Madame de Beaumont's Beauty and the Mast and Prince Darling, form a large and indispensable part of the nursery stock of the world. Perrault. published these stories under the name of his son, Pierre Perrault d'Armancour, and called them ilistoires on conics du temps passe, with the subtitle Conics dc ma mire Pak. Perrault no more invented his stories outright than the Grimm Brothers did theirs; nor did he intend to make a contribution to the knowledge of folk-lore. He drew on oral tradition, but he treated his matter in French fashion, and set off fairy Lyncies with touches of playful realism.
There are many editions of Perrault's Conics. The best is probably that of Andrew Lang (Lon don. 1888), with a careful introduction of 115 pages. Consult, also, Deulin, Conies de ma mere l'Uye avant Charles Perrault (Paris, 1879).