"Cinderella, is a fairy tale by Charles Perrault. It was first published anonymously in Paris in 1697 in “Histoires ou contes du temps passé”, a collection of eight fairy tales by Perrault.
The story is about an ill-treated girl who, with the help of her fairy godmother, travels to a ball in a pumpkin coach. She flees the ball at midnight and loses her glass slipper. A prince, who has fallen in love with her, finds her lost slipper and uses it later to find her.