This 18th century French tale is going to be harder to understand, but is great to learn new vocabulary - or learn how to use "passé simple". I do my best to enunciate, I read clearly and a bit more slow than normal, and it should be feasible, specially if you studied my own version of this famous fairytale.
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And you can follow the original French Charles Perrault's text and the English translation in the Dual-Language Book presented here. (BTW, the French text is in the public domain since it was written in the 18th century: you can also do a search for it on the internet)
To master French, you need a savvy buid-up of pronunciation, conversation, language structure, and a good dose of confidence.
