Charles Perrault

Charles Perrault was born in Paris in 1628, into a family of the upper bourgeoisie. Called to the bar in 1651, he became a clerk to his brother Pierre, receiver general of finances, then in 1663 entered the service of Colbert, who made him secretary of the Petite Académie, the future Académie des inscriptions, and entrusted him with a post at the King's Buildings. Elected to the Académie française in 1671, he lost his influence in 1683 and took the lead of the moderns in the quarrel that set them against the partisans of the ancients. He died in Paris in 1703.

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