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At the age of 67, French author Charles Perrault lost his employment and decided to focus on his children. In 1697 he published a collection of short stories based on existing folk tales, "Histoires ou Contes du Temps Passe." These stories, presented in this volume, are some of the most well-known children's stories in the western world, including "Le Petit Chaperon Rouge" ("Little Red Riding-Hood"), "Cendrillon" ("Cinderella"), "Le Chat Botte" ("Puss in Boots"), and "La Belle au Bois Dormant" ("The Sleeping Beauty"). Because of this collection of short morality...

Jean de La Fontaine was one of the most widely read French poets of the 17th century. Born in Chateau-Thierry in 1621, his literary career did not truly begin until he was in his thirties and spending most of his time in the French capital, Paris. Among La Fontaine's most famous works are his collections of fables, issued in several volumes between 1668 and 1694. The earliest of these books, from which the current collection was drawn, were mostly adapted from the works of Aesop, Babrius, and Phaedrus. La Fontaine initially wrote his rhyming fables for a sophisticated audience, but the poems...

Full-color illustrated edition Francois Elie Jules Lemaitre always loved children. His own beloved daughter, Madeleine, died when she was only a month old, and he never had any more children. But he had many godchildren, and he loved to tell them stories. The collection of short, alphabet-themed stories in this volume was born from this love of children and storytelling. This bilingual edition is designed to assist those learning French. The original French text appears on the right-hand pages of the book, with the corresponding English translation on the left-hand pages.

FULL COLOR ILLUSTRATED EDITION (8 of 18 illustrations are in color)

Sophie Rostopchina, the Comtesse de SEgur, was born in St. Petersburg, Russia, in 1799. She wrote her first novel at the age of 58, and continued to write novels and stories for children and young people. Her most well-known novel, Les Malheurs de Sophie (Sophie's Misfortunes) is about a young French girl who lives with her parents in a castle in the French countryside. The Comtesse died on February 9, 1874 in Paris. This collection includes the short stories Histoire de Blondine, de Bonne-Biche et de Beau-Minon...

Volume one of five
The unabridged form of this story runs to over 1,900 pages in either French or English, necessitating multiple volumes of this bilingual edition, which is designed to assist those learning French. The original French text appears on the right-hand pages of the book, with the corresponding English translation on the left-hand pages.
Other bilingual books available from Sleeping Cat Books:
"The Picture of Dorian Gray
Selected Works of Edgar Allan Poe
Fables of Jean de La Fontaine
Candide
Shakespeare's Sonnets
New Fairy Tales for Small...