CHARLES PERRAULT French author (1628-1703) Biography: Charles Perrault was born in Paris on January 1628. Son of an upper-class burgeois family, he attended the best schools and becomes a lawyer in 1651. He wrote Parall les des anciens et des modernes (Parallels between the Ancients and the Moderns), 1688-1697, which compared the authors of antiquity unfavorably to modern writers, and became a ...

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