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in reply to a message by Miss Claire
"Cinderella" used to be a general slang term for a low-ranked servant girl. In some other Grimm tales, such girls are sometimes referred to as "cinderellas".
Miranda
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As far as I know, unlike the Grimm brothers, Perrault actually wrote Cinderella (Cendrillon, of course) as an original work. So the German link would have come later - like calling any detective a Sherlock Holmes.
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