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married. In the Perrault’s version, finally, we get to
           the happy ending not just thanks to luck, but thanks
           to my imagination and smarts. If I had not been
           able to defeat that stupid ogre, my ruses would
           have been useless. If the King had known that the
           Marquis of Carabas actually had neither a mansion
           nor even a hovel, he would have executed both the
           lad and me together with him.
             Now you might ask: why did Perrault make me
           perform that feat with that ogre, which fits me just
           as well as my boots, with the result that I still wear
           those boots and still challenge the ogre in every tale
           which tells about me? To answer this question I will
           tell you a tale belonging to The Thousand and One
           Nights, that Europeans were able read for the first
           time thanks to Antoine Galland, a contemporary of
           Charles Perrault. _


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