Of course, the very first thing the young wife does is to run to the forbidden door "with such excessive haste that she nearly fell and broke her neck." She has promised obedience to her husband, but a combination of greed and curiosity (the text implies) propels her to the fatal door the minute his back is turned. That alone is forbidden, he tells her, "and if you happen to open it, you may expect my just anger and resentment." He leaves her behind with all the keys to his house, his strong boxes, and his caskets of jewels, telling her she may do as she likes with them and to "make good cheer." There is only one key that she may not use, to a tiny closet at the end of the hall. Soon after, Bluebeard tells his wife that business calls him to make a long journey. The two are promptly wed and the girl becomes mistress of his great household. Seduced by luxurious living, the youngest daughter agrees to accept Bluebeard's hand. Neither girl wants to marry the man because of his ugly blue beard - until he invites the girls and their mother to a party at his country estate. The story as Perrault tells it is this: A wealthy man, wishing to wed, turns his attention to the two beautiful young daughters of his neighbor, a widow. Rather, it's a gruesome cautionary tale about the dangers of marriage (on the one hand) and the perils of greed and curiosity (on the other) - more akin, in our modern culture, to horror films than to Disney cartoons. These new stories were called contes des feés, from which our modern term "fairy tales" derives - but the contes des feés of the French salons were intended for adult readers.īluebeard, for example, has little to recommend it as a children's story. Perrault was one in a group of writers who socialized in the literary salons of Paris, collectively creating a vogue for literature inspired by peasant folk tales.
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Though based on older folk tales of demon lovers and devilish bridegrooms, the story of Bluebeard, as we know it today, is the creation of French writer Charles Perrault - first published in 1697 in his collection Histoires ou contes du temps passé ( Stories or Tales of Past Times).