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Cinderella

French

Phraseologism: Cinderella.

Meaning: A household name for a hardworking girl who finds happiness.

Origin: Cinderella, Sandrillon - the heroine of a fairy tale known among different European peoples - Cinderella (English), Aschenputtel or Aschenbrodel (German "stained with ashes"), Cendrillon (French, from cendre - "ash" or "ash"). This hard-working, kind girl who does all the dirty work around the house is constantly offended by her evil stepmother and her evil, lazy daughters. But in the end, goodness triumphs: the stepmother and sisters are punished, and Cinderella, with whom the prince falls in love, becomes a princess. At the end of the XVII century. the French writer Charles Perrault (1628-1703) made a literary adaptation of this tale, called it "Cinderella, or Shoes trimmed with fur" and included it in his collection "Tales of my mother the Goose, or Stories and tales of bygone times with morals" (1697) . In the original, we are talking about just such shoes trimmed with fur, one of which Cinderella loses, hurrying to leave the ball in the palace as soon as possible. In the Russian translation, we are talking about a glass slipper, and the reason for this is a translation error, since in French "glass" (crystal) sounds and is written almost the same as the old French, from the time of Perrault, the word "fur".

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