He was quickly disillusioned of the job, so in 1654 he moved in with his brother Pierre who was chief tax collector of the City of Paris, thus embarking on a career in government service. Following the footsteps of his father and elder brother, he studied law and was admitted to the Bar in 1651. His independent readings brought him to rewrite the Enéide’s sixth volume in burlesque verse. From then on he started studying the classic authors, the history of the church, the history of France and the Bible, on his own. After having an argument with his philosophy professor, he and one of his classmates decided not to return to class. The youngest of seven siblings, he attended the ‘Collège de Beauvais’ in Paris where he was always at the top of his class, especially in philosophy. He was born on January 12, 1678, in Paris, into a wealthy bourgeois family. We have little information about Charles Perrault’s life.
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