Charles Perrault – The Fairy tales writer

    Charles Perrault – The Fairy tales writer

Charles Perrault

   Charles Perrault was a French fairy tales writer in the second half of XVII century. He was one of the first writers in European literature, who turned his eyes to folklore. Charles Perrault was considered a leading intellectual of his time. He is now mostly remembered for his fairy-tale stories.

   Charles Perrault was born in Paris in 1628, in a wealthy bourgeois family. His parents were Pierre Perrault and Paquette Le Clerc. He was the seventh child of this family. The Perrault-family was wealthy and bourgeois which made it possible for Charles Perrault and his brother to attend the best schools. Charles Perrault attended good schools and studied law before embarking on a career in government service, following in the footsteps of his father and older brother Jean Perrault.

   When Charles Perrault was in school in Paris, he was always at the head of his class.  He enjoyed exercises in verse.  In the class of Philosophy, he was deeply interested to wrangling with his teacher and maintaining characteristically, that his arguments were better than other students.