![]() ![]() However, it was the perfect theme for art director Eyvind Earle to transform into a Disney movie. Perrault’s account seems to have been a fiction of his imagination since, by the 17th century, stories of medieval knights, damsels, and dragons were far behind their time. The tale follows the story of a young princess cursed to sleep for one hundred years after pricking her finger on the spindle of a spinning wheel. Within the book of fairytales is La belle au bois dormant ( The Sleeping Beauty). The 1695 original manuscript, Contes da ma mere l’Oye( Tales of Mother Goose) is now at the Morgan Library & Museum in New York City. But the 1959 film was based on Charles Perrault’s collection of fairytales published in 1697 and dedicated to King Louis XIV’s niece. ![]() Everyone knows the tale of Sleeping Beauty thanks to Walt Disney. ![]()
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