Charles Perrault’s "Puss in Boots" was published in 1697. The story's French title is Le Maître chat ou le Chat botté (The Master Cat, or Cat in Boots). In Perrault’s story, a miller’s youngest son despairs when he inherits only a cat in his father’s will. But this is no ordinary cat. All the cat needs is a pair of boots to set in motion a clever plan to help his owner. The cat convinces a local King that the miller’s son is the wealthy “Marquis de Carabas.” Soon the cat manages to trick an ogre out of his castle and engineer a marriage between the miller’s son and a princess.

Source: Toronto Public Library