Meet the woman who'll inspire the author of the world's most famous storyâ??Lucinda, a penniless English orphan, is abused and exploited as a cinder-sweep by her aristocratic relatives. On receiving her sole inheritanceâ??a pair of glass-beaded slippersâ??she runs away to France in pursuit of an officer on whom she has a big crush. She joins the baggage train of Louis XIVâ??s army, survives a horrific massacre, and eventually finds her way to Paris. There she befriends the man who will some day write the worldâ??s best loved fairy tale, Charles Perrault. 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. This is not the fairy tal