La Belle au bois dormant by Charles Perrault

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"La Belle au bois dormant" by Charles Perrault is a classic 17th-century French fairy tale that tells the story of a princess cursed to sleep for a hundred years until awakened by a prince's kiss.

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instanceOf French fairy tale
fairy tale
literary work
short story
alsoKnownAs Sleeping Beauty
The Sleeping Beauty
surface form: The Sleeping Beauty in the Wood
author Perrault
surface form: Charles Perrault
centralTheme coming of age
fate and destiny
good versus evil
true love
countryOfOrigin France
firstPublication 1697
genre children's literature
fairy tale
fantasy literature
hasAdaptation animated film adaptations
ballet adaptations
film adaptations
opera adaptations
theatrical adaptations
hasFairyTaleMotif cursed princess
enchanted sleep
fairy godmothers
rescuing prince
hasMoral evil is ultimately defeated
virtue and patience are rewarded
inCollectionBy Perrault
surface form: Charles Perrault
influenced European fairy-tale tradition
later Sleeping Beauty retellings
influencedBy oral folk tales
literaryMovement French classical fairy tale tradition
literaryPeriod 17th century
mainCharacter The Sleeping Beauty
surface form: Sleeping Beauty

the evil fairy
the good fairies
the prince
the princess
narrativeForm prose
narrativeLocation a fictional kingdom
originalLanguage French
originalTitle The Sleeping Beauty
surface form: La Belle au bois dormant
plotElement a prince discovers the sleeping princess
a princess is cursed to sleep for a hundred years
a spindle prick triggers the curse
the princess falls into an enchanted sleep
the princess is awakened by a kiss
publishedIn Histoires ou contes du temps passé
targetAudience children
families
timeInFiction one hundred years of sleep

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The Sleeping Beauty by Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky basedOn La Belle au bois dormant by Charles Perrault
subject surface form: The Sleeping Beauty
Sleeping Beauty basedOn La Belle au bois dormant by Charles Perrault
this entity surface form: Sleeping Beauty by Charles Perrault
Maleficent basedOn La Belle au bois dormant by Charles Perrault