The other titles in the set - some also very well known - are Sleeping Beauty, Little Red Riding Hood, Bluebeard, The Fairies, Cinderella, Ricky of the Tuft and Tom Thumb. They were written down by the Frenchman Charles Perrault (1628-1703), but they are not his original stories: all the tales were part of a storytelling tradition that had been continuing for a long time before Perrault's lifetime. It was translated from the Italian into French in 1585 as one of a collection of eight short stories published in 1697 under the title Stories or Tales from the Past, with Morals (Histoires ou contes du temps passé, avec des moralités), subtitled Tales of Mother Goose (Contes de ma mère l'oye). xi of Straparola's tales in The Delightful Nights, and tells of the cat procuring his master Constantine a fine castle and the king's heiress. In about 1530 the nursery tale Le Chat Botté was published in Italy as no. The origins of the story, which is also sometimes known as The Master Cat, go back a long way. Of postage stamps, and we have used several to illustrate the page here.Ĭlick thumbnails for enlargements (JavaScript should be enabled) The character of Puss in Boots (or The Master Cat) has often been the theme Purr-n-Fur UK | The Tale of Puss in Boots, aka The Master CatĪrticles in Fabled Felines are written byĬertain features on these pages use JavaScript

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