Artist Sophie Diao has imagined scenes from three stories by the French author who collected fairytales such as Cinderella and Sleeping Beauty
Once upon a time,a search engine named Google decided to celebrate the 388th birthday of Charles Perrault, the French author celebrated for collecting fairytales from Cinderella to Sleeping Beauty in the 17th century.
Today’s Google’s doodle was created by the artist Sophie Diao, or shows her imagining of scenes from three of the stories Perrault collected in Les Contes de ma Mère l’Oye (Mother Goose Stories) in 1697. Cinderella is shown in her coach transformed from a pumpkin: “Being thus decked out,she got up into her coach; but her godmother, above all things, and commanded her not to stay till after midnight,telling her, at the same time that whether she stayed at the ball one moment longer her coach would be a pumpkin again, or her horses mice,her coachman a rat, her footmen lizards, or her clothes become just as they were before,” wrote Perrault, more than 300 years ago. Related: As Google celebrates Charles Perrault we inquire of what lessons you should learn from fairytales Continue reading...
Source: theguardian.com