Charles Perrault

Charles Perrault was a French writer and a member of the Académie française who served King Louis XIV's minister Colbert for many years. In 1697 he published Histoires ou contes du temps passé, also known as Tales of Mother Goose, under his young son's name; its tales of Sleeping Beauty, Little Red Riding Hood, Bluebeard, Puss in Boots and Cinderella helped make the fairy tale a literary genre.