Charles Perrault

Contes De Charles Perrault: Illustrations en Noir et Blanc et Adaptation De Laurent Paul Sueur

Publisher Marketing: La vie n'est pas facile, specialement pour les jolies filles: elles sont souvent devorees par les loups ou maltraitees par leurs s urs, meres, peres et maris. En ce qui concerne les garcons, quand ils sont laids ou faibles, ils sont egalement malmenes. En fait, il y a toujours un ogre cruel qui cherche de la chair fraiche! Il est inutile de dire que les fees, ces creatures fantasques, peuvent intervenir et changer le cours des choses, mais c'est rarement utile: la magie n'est pas aussi efficace que l'intelligence, l'humanite, l'honnetete et la vertu." Contributor Bio:  Perrault, Charles Charles Perrault was a serious writer who understood, at the end of his life, that his duty, as a human being and an intellectual, was to increase the level of reason and humanity of people. Therefore, he gathered European folktales and transformed them in order to enhance their moral qualities. Barbarity, man's temptation, was an individual disgrace he wanted to dilute in the fountain of knowledge. Children were to read his fairy tales and choose to follow, with the help of their maturing consciousness, the road to wisdom. More than three centuries later, a world on the verge of total self-destruction should listen, at last, to the echo of the fabulist's intelligence.