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	Charles Perrault Charles Perrault , 1628-1703, French poet. His collections of eight fairy tales, Histoires ou contes du temps passé [stories or tales of olden times] (1697) gave classic form to the traditional stories of Bluebeard, Sleeping Beauty, Cinderella, Puss in Boots, Little Red Ridinghood, and... Read more
	Cinderella Cinderella heroine of one of the most famous folktales in the world. She is rescued from a life of drudgery by her fairy godmother and eventually marries a handsome prince. The story (dating back to 9th-century China) exists in 500 versions in Europe alone; it was included by both Charles Perrault... Read more
	Claude Perrault Claude Perrault , 1613-88, French architect, scientist, and physician. One of the most eminent French scholars of his time, he advanced the study of anatomy and made other scientific contributions. His greatest architectural achievement is his work on the east facade of the Louvre, known as the... Read more
	Bluebeard Bluebeard nickname of the chevalier Raoul in a story by Charles Perrault. In the story Bluebeard's seventh wife, Fatima, yielding to curiosity, opens a locked door and discovers the slain bodies of her predecessors. She is saved from death by the timely arrival of her brothers, for whose coming her... Read more
	Mother Goose Mother Goose name associated with nursery rhymes . Most English nursery rhymes have been ascribed to Mother Goose. The origin of the name is still a matter of dispute. Some trace it to a French collection of tales by Charles Perrault (1697) that had the subtitle Contes de ma mère L'Oye ... Read more
	Louvre Louvre , foremost French museum of art, located in Paris. The building was a royal fortress and palace built by Philip II in the late 12th cent. In 1546 Pierre Lescot was commissioned by Francis I to erect a new building on the site of the Louvre. During his reign, several paintings by Leonardo,... Read more
	Louis Le Vau Louis Le Vau , 1612-70, French architect, involved in most of the important building projects for Louis XIV. He settled on the Île Saint-Louis, where he built his own house and the Hôtels Lambert and Lauzun. In 1655, Le Vau succeeded Jacques Lemercier as architect for the Louvre, on... Read more
	Nicolas Boileau-Despreaux Nicolas Boileau-Despréaux , 1636-1711, French literary critic and poet. He was the spokesman of classicism , drawing his principles from his contemporaries, among them his friends Racine, Molière, and La Fontaine. His critical precepts are embodied in L'Art poétique (1674), a... Read more
	Warranty Deed WARRANTY DEED An instrument that transfers real property from one person to another and in which the grantor promises that title is good and clear of any claims. A deed is a written instrument that transfers the title of property from one person to another. Although many types of deeds exist,... Read more
	Gilded age Gilded Age The quarter century between the end of Reconstruction and Theodore Roosevelt's accession to the presidency in 1901 obtained its name from an 1873 novel by Charles Dudley Warner and Mark Twain, The Gilded Age.The book's satirical, critical tone shaped the way historians viewed the... Read more