THE MUSIC OF TIME NO 8: SLIPS OF THE TONGUE: Historians set great store by what people heard in the past, but what about those things they misheard?.

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  • Author(s): Lee, Alexander
  • Source:
    History Today. Feb2018, Vol. 68 Issue 2, p86-88. 3p.
  • Additional Information
    • Subject Terms:
      CINDERELLA (Tale); PERRAULT, Charles, 1628-1703; HISTORIANS; BALZAC, Honore de, 1799-1850; HISTORIOGRAPHY
    • Abstract:
      The article focuses on historians' challenge to Charles Perrault's retelling of the Cinderella tale. Honoré de Balzac speculated that Perrault must have based his tale on oral testimony and had misheard squirrel-fur slippers as glass slippers. It states that Balzac's theory highlights that although historians have recognised the utility of studying how things may have been heard in the past, it can sometimes be revealing to examine how things were misheard.