Contes de ma mère l'Oye

Little Red Riding Hood, Cinderella, Sleeping Beauty, Puss in Boots, Bluebeard, Tom Thumb, Riquet with the Tuft and The Fairies: the fairy tales as Charles Perrault first wrote them in 1697, before they were softened for children. The wolf eats Red Riding Hood, Bluebeard's wife opens the forbidden door, and each tale ends with a rhymed moral, often ironic. Short stories, in seventeenth-century French.