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"Go into the garden and get me a pumpkin."
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Charles Perrault
Charles Perrault was a French author and member of the Académie Française. He laid the foundations for a new literary genre, the fairy tale, with his works derived from earlier folk tales, published in his 1697 book Histoires ou contes du temps passé. The best known of his tales include "Little Red Riding Hood", "Cinderella", "Puss in Boots", "Sleeping Beauty", and "Bluebeard".
"Go into the garden and get me a pumpkin."
"She then gave her a pair of slippers made of glass, the prettiest in the world."
"When she had done her work, she would go over to the chimney corner, and sit among the cinders."
"These were all the women whom Bluebeard had married, and whose throats he had cut one after the other."
"Fetch me my seven-league boots so I can catch the children."
"Havent you heard that this house belongs to an ogre who eats little children?"
"Anne, my sister Anne, do you see nothing coming?" "I see nothing but the sun that makes everything dusty, and the grass that grows green."
"The king was astonished at the vast amount of property owned by the Marquis of Carabas."
"She said to her, "Grandmother, what great arms you have!" "Thats to embrace you the better, my child." "Grandmother, what great legs you have!" "Thats to run the better, my child." "Grandmother, what great ears you have!" "Thats to hear the better, my child." "Grandmother, what great teeth you have!" "Thats for to eat you." And upon saying these words, this naughty Wolf threw himself upon Little Red Riding Hood, and ate her."
"But the blood always remained, for the key was enchanted."
"...Open anything you want. Go anywhere you wish. But I absolutely forbid you to enter that little room, and if you open it so much as a crack, nothing will protect you from my wrath."
"Charm is the true gift of the Fairies."