Bluebeard (fr La Barbe bleue.) - French folk tale, the legend of treacherous husband - the murderer of many women, literary processed and recorded by Charles Perrault and was first published in his book "Tales of my Mother Goose, or stories and tales of bygone days with the teachings" in 1697. The prototype of the character could serve as a French marshal and Baron Gilles de Rais, who was executed on charges of multiple murders.