Fairy Tales - Monaco : 1978

1978 - 350th Birth Anniversary of Charles Perrault 

Cinderella - Puss in Boots - Sleeping Beauty

Donkey Skin - Little Red Riding Hood - Blue Beard

Little Thumb - Riquet with the Tuft - Fairies (Diamonds and Toads)

Charles Perrault (1628 – 1703) was a French author and member of the Académie Française. He laid the foundations for a new literary genre, the fairy tale, with his works derived from earlier folk tales, published in his 1697 book Histoires ou contes du temps passé. The best known of his tales include "Little Red Riding Hood", "Cinderella", "Puss in Boots", "Sleeping Beauty", and "Bluebeard".

Some of Perrault's versions of old stories influenced the German versions published by the Brothers Grimm more than 100 years later. 

Stamps engraved by Eugene Lacaque after artwork by Pierrette Lambert