To underscore its importance, Perrault calls the tale Cendrillon, ou la petite pantoufle de verre.įor over three centuries, most of us have accepted the notion that glass is a suitable material for ladies’ footwear. Running after her, the prince retrieves it, and it serves as proof of the girl’s identity. Cinderella loses one on the second night of the ball. At midnight, the coach, horses, attendants, and dress all change back to what they were, but the glass slippers remain. Like the godmother herself, the glass slippers spring from nowhere, and that difference is significant. At the touch of the wand, the girl’s “wretched clothes” become “a dress made of cloth of gold and silver bedecked with precious stones.” Finally, the godmother gives Cinderella “a pair of glass slippers, the prettiest in the world.” Her godmother, who happens to be a fairy, says, “You wish you could go to the ball, n’est-ce pas?” Together, they a change a pumpkin into a coach, six mice into horses, a rat into a coachman, and six lizards into footmen. In the tale by Charles Perrault published in Paris in 1697, Cinderella watches her two stepsisters depart for the ball, then bursts into tears.
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