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La Belle au bois dormant (The Sleeping Beauty in the Wood).<\/em><\/p>\n More illustrated Perrault. Gustave Dor\u00e9’s intention to produce definitive illustrations for his editions certainly paid off when he turned his attention to the French fairy tales.\u00a0Dor\u00e9’s work may lack the light touch required for some of these stories but a couple of the engravings\u2014Red Riding Hood in bed with the wolf, Puss-in-Boots\u2014are reproduced endlessly whenever picture editors need a suitable illustration. Dor\u00e9’s characters can be rather wooden at times but the expressions on the face of the wolf and the girl are perfect.<\/p>\n Le Petit Chaperon rouge (Little Red Riding Hood).<\/em><\/p>\n Elsewhere Dor\u00e9 contributes some original details: the court in Sleeping Beauty<\/em> is usually shown besieged by thorns or bracken but Dor\u00e9 has giant fungi growing all over the floor; in Little Tom Thumb<\/em> the children are described as knocking on the door of the ogre’s house then being let inside but Dor\u00e9 shows the ogre’s wife greeting them with a shaft of lamplight. These illustrations were published in several editions throughout the 1860s which makes that lamplight beam a very advanced pictorial effect. Incidentally, for those who read the Amon D\u00fc\u00fcl II cover art post a couple of days ago, the figure of Tom Thumb stealing the ogre’s seven-league boots may be glimpsed outside the spacecraft window in the centrespread of Dance of the Lemmings<\/em><\/a>.<\/p>\n Wikimedia Commons<\/a> has more of the Dor\u00e9 illustrations; there’s also a set at Gallica<\/a> although the quality of their scans isn’t always so good.<\/p>\n La Barbe bleue (Blue Beard).<\/em><\/p>\n <\/p>\n Le Ma\u00eetre chat ou le Chat bott\u00e9 (The Master Cat, or Puss-in-Boots).<\/em><\/p>\n Les F\u00e9es (The Fairies).<\/em><\/p>\n Cendrillon ou la petite pantoufle de verre (Cinderella, or The Little Glass Slipper).<\/em><\/p>\n Riquet \u00e0 la houppe (Ricky of the Tuft).<\/em><\/p>\n Le Petit Poucet (Little Tom Thumb).<\/em><\/p>\n Le Petit Poucet (Little Tom Thumb).<\/em><\/p>\n Peau d’\u00c2ne (Donkey-skin).<\/em><\/p>\n Elsewhere on { feuilleton } Previously on { feuilleton } La Belle au bois dormant (The Sleeping Beauty in the Wood). More illustrated Perrault. 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\n\u2022 The illustrators archive<\/a><\/p>\n
\n\u2022 William Heath Robinson\u2019s Old-Time Stories<\/a>
\n\u2022 Edmund Dulac\u2019s Sleeping Beauty and Other Fairy Tales<\/a>
\n\u2022 Harry Clarke\u2019s Fairy Tales of Charles Perrault<\/a>
\n\u2022 John Austen\u2019s Tales of Passed Times<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"