“Master Cat; or, The Booted Cat” (early French: Le Maître Chat, ou Le Chat Botté), commonly known as “Puss in Boots”, is a French literary fairy tale about a cat who uses trickery and deceit to gain power, wealth, and the hand of a princess in marriage for his penniless and low-born master. The tale was written at the close of the seventeenth century by Charles Perrault (16281703), a retired civil servant and member of the Académie française. The tale appeared in a handwritten and illustrated manuscript two years before its 1697 publication by Barbin in a collection of eight fairy tales by Perrault called Histoires ou contes du temps passé. The book was an instant success and remains popular. Perrault’s Histoires has had considerable impact on world culture. The original French title was “Histoires ou contes du temps passé or Les Contes de ma Mère l’Oye Stories or Fairy Tales from Past Times with Morals or “Mother Goose Tales… “The frontispiece to the earliest English editions depicts an old woman telling tales to a group of children beneath a placard inscribed “MOTHER GOOSE’S TALES and is credited with launching the Mother Goose legend in the English-speaking world. “Puss in Boots” has provided inspiration for composers, choreographers, and other artists over the centuries. The cat appears in the third act pas de caractère of Tchaikovsky’s ballet The Sleeping Beauty, for example, and makes appearances in other media. 1 Oz 31,1g. Our shippment is insured, inkl. Return item must be sent within 14 days after it has been received. Kmk-coins ist a young merchant/distributor of selected commemorative- and collectional-coins. We garantee the authenticity of the coins we sell. We will always do our best to please our customers. Track Page Views With. Auctiva’s FREE Counter. The item “Cook Islands 2013 5$ Cartoon Puss In Boots 1Oz Silver Coin” is in sale since Tuesday, October 18, 2016. This item is in the category “Coins & Paper Money\Coins\ World\Commemorative”. The seller is “kmk-coins” and is located in Berlin. This item can be shipped worldwide.