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Puss In Boots Le Chat Botte


Is from the "Eleventh Night" of Straparola's Italian fairy tales, where

Constantine's cat procures his master a fine castle and the king's

heiress, first translated into French in 1585. Our version is taken from

that of Charles Perrault. There is a similar one in the Scandinavian

nursery tales. This clever cat secures a fortune and a royal partner for

his master, who passes off as the Marquis of Carabas, but is in reality

a young miller, without a penny in the world.



The above is from Dr. Brewer's "Dictionary of Phrase and Fable," and

goes far to prove the antiquity of what is generally believed to be a

modern story, many believing it to be one of the numberless pleasant,

amusing, and in a sense instructive nursery or children's stories of the

present time.



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