《穿靴子的猫》最有名的版本，出自法国作家夏尔·佩罗1697年出版的故事集《鹅妈妈的故事》（原书名为《过去时光的故事》），法语题目的意思是「猫老爷，又名穿靴子的猫」。同一本书里还有《小红帽》《睡美人》《灰姑娘》等故事。佩罗在每篇故事的结尾都写了押韵的「寓意」诗，《穿靴子的猫》后面一共有两首。

The best-known version of Puss in Boots comes from the French writer Charles Perrault, who published it in 1697 in his collection Tales of Mother Goose, whose original title was Stories or Tales from Past Times. The French title means Master Cat, or the Booted Cat. The same book also contains Little Red Riding Hood, Sleeping Beauty and Cinderella. Perrault ended every tale with rhyming verses giving its moral, and Puss in Boots has two of them.

比佩罗更早，意大利就流传着聪明的猫帮主人发财的故事：16世纪中叶，斯特拉帕罗拉在《欢乐之夜》里写过一只帮穷小伙娶到公主的猫；1634年起出版的巴西莱《五日谈》里，也有一个类似的故事。格林兄弟1812年出版的第一版《儿童与家庭童话集》也收录过《穿靴子的猫》，但因为它主要来自法国，从第二版起就被删掉了。

Even before Perrault, stories of a clever cat who makes its master rich were told in Italy. In the middle of the 16th century, Straparola wrote in The Facetious Nights about a cat who helps a poor young man marry a princess, and a similar tale appears in The Pentamerone by Basile, published from 1634. The Brothers Grimm included Puss in Boots in the first edition of their Children and Household Tales in 1812, but because it came mainly from France, it was removed from the second edition onwards.

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