If you take any book of fairy-tales by foreign writers – it is almost for sure that you will manage to find fairy-tales by Charles Perrault there as well. And it can hardly be by chance, can it? Actually, if authorship of these fairy-tales were not mentioned so often, one could easily get accustomed to the thought that they are folk ones. Personally I usually prefer folk tales – they seem deeper, more polished to me than authors' fairy-tales (however, not all and not any – for any rule has its exceptions). But great was my surprise when once I found out that fairy-tales by, say, Charles Perrault are not quite sheer author's fantasy. That is, both the Puss in Boots, and the Red Riding Hood, and even Hop o' My Thumb – all of them have come to us from European folklore. Well, and Charles Perrault's mastery lied in good processing of the material collected – and, as we see, he coped with his task well. His name lives on, so do his fairy-tales – and this is great. Because the fairy-tales are beautiful – and I don't think I need to convince anybody of that.
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