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A Christmas Story with a Fairy-Tale Twist: Paul Arène’s “The Gospel According to Saint Perrault”
- Marvels & Tales
- Wayne State University Press
- Volume 29, Number 2, 2015
- pp. 343-351
- 10.13110/marvelstales.29.2.0343
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This unorthodox Christmas story by the nineteenth-century French author Paul Arène appeared in Nouveaux Contes de Noël (New Christmas Stories, 1890). “The Gospel According to Saint Perrault” is a recast of the Nativity told from the perspective of a 4-year-old girl, who incorporates into the biblical account characters and events from Charles Perrault’s Histoires ou contes du temps passé.