Charles Perrault was born in Paris, France in 1628.  He live when France was ruled by kings.  Perrault trained as a lawyer, but spent much of his life as a civil servant, when Louis the Fourteenth was king.  He helped spark the famous debate in French literature between the Ancients and Moderns.

Near the end of his life, when he was in his late sixties, Perrault became famous for a small book of fairy tales.  The book contained only eight stories and was called Stories or Tales from Times Past, with Morals, with a second title of Tales of Mother Goose.

Perrault did not invent these tales.  Instead, he polished folk tales so that educated people could appreciate them too.  His stories helped create the modern fairy tale.