(Charles 1628-1703) was one of the earliest defenders of the Moderns in France, and, with Fontenelle, is cited as one of the leaders on that side of the controversy, by Wotton. Hence Swift's attack upon them both. From his earliest youth Perrault had a love of controversy, which he stimulated by voracious and ill-regulated reading. In 1687 his poem on Le Siecle de Louis le Grand provoked ridicule by its extravagant claims on behalf of the Moderns. Between 1688 and 1698 he published, in 4 vols, a Parallele des Anciens et des Modernes. This literary freak was only one phase of his mental tendency, which was essentially directed against authority. His controversial works are forgotten, but his Contes des Fees has been a favourite with generations of children.