Charles Perrault
Blue Beard
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Unabridged
11 minutes
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'Blue beard' is a French folktale, the most famous surviving version of which was written by Charles Perrault and first published by Barbin in Paris in 1697. The tale tells the story of a wealthy man in the habit of murdering his wives and the attempts of the present one to avoid the fate of her predecessors.
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