Its best known line is, 'Rapunzel, Rapunzel, let down your hair'. Its plot has been used and parodied in various media. The tale is classified as Aarne–Thompson type 310 ('The Maiden in The Tower').
The Brothers Grimm's story was developed from the French literary fairy tale of Persinette by Charlotte-Rose de Caumont de La Force (1698). ' Rapunzel' ( / r ə ˈ p ʌ n z əl/ rə- PUN-zəl, German: ( listen) French: Persinette) is a European fairy tale most notably recorded by the Brothers Grimm and published in 1812 as part of Children's and Household Tales (KHM 12). Illustration of Rapunzel and the witch on a 1978 East German stamp
