Slipper

<p>Meet the woman who will inspire the author of the world's most famous story:</p><p>Lucinda a penniless English orphan is abused and exploited as a cinder-sweep by her aristocratic relatives. On receiving her sole inheritance—a pair of glass-beaded slippers—she runs away to France in pursuit of an officer on whom she has a big crush. She joins the baggage train of Louis XIV’s army survives a horrific massacre and eventually finds her way to Paris. There she befriends the man who will some day write the world’s best loved fairy tale Charles Perrault.</p><p>There is much more: a witch hunt the sorry truth about daydreams and some truly astonishing revelations such as the historical facts behind the story of the Emperor's new clothes and a perfectly reasonable explanation for the compulsion some young women have to kiss frogs.</p><p>This is not the fairy tale you remember.</p>