painted The Sleeping Beauty.]]Sleeping Beauty ("La Belle au Bois dormant" (The Sleeping Beauty in the Wood)) is a fairy tale classic, the first in the set published in 1697 by Charles Perrault, Contes de ma Mère l'Oye ("Mother Goose Tales").Heidi Anne Heiner, [LINK: http://www.surlalunefairytales.com/sleepingbeauty/index.html] "The Annotated Sleeping Beauty" While Perrault's version is better known, an older variant, the tale Sun, Moon and Talia, was contained in Giambattista Basile's Pentamerone (published 1634).Giambattista Basile, Pentamerone, [LINK: http://www.public.iastate.edu/~lhagge/sun,moon.htm] "Sun, Moon and Talia" Professor J. R. R. Tolkien noted that Perrault's cultural presence is so pervasive that, when asked to name a fairy tale, most people will cite one of the eight stories in Perrault's collection.

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