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Bluebeard

Folk-tale character, popularized by the writer Charles Perrault in France about 1697, and historically identified with Gilles de Rais, a 15th-century French nobleman executed for murdering children. Bluebeard murdered six wives for disobeying his command not to enter a locked room, but was himself killed before he could murder the seventh.

The legend inspired operas by Béla Bartók and Paul Dukas.

Bluebeard

See Ariane et Barbe-bleue; Barbe-bleue .



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