<P> He married Marie Guichon, age 19, in 1672; she died in 1678 . </P> <P> In 1669 Perrault advised Louis XIV to include thirty - nine fountains each representing one of the fables of Aesop in the labyrinth of Versailles in the gardens of Versailles . The work was carried out between 1672 and 1677 . Water jets spurting from the animals' mouths were conceived to give the impression of speech between the creatures . There was a plaque with a caption and a quatrain written by the poet Isaac de Benserade next to each fountain . Perrault produced the guidebook for the labyrinth, Labyrinte de Versailles, printed at the royal press, Paris, in 1677, and illustrated by Sebastien le Clerc . </P> <P> Philippe Quinault, a longtime family friend of the Perraults, quickly gained a reputation as the librettist for the new musical genre known as opera, collaborating with composer Jean - Baptiste Lully . After Alceste (1674) was denounced by traditionalists who rejected it for deviating from classical theater, Perrault wrote in response Critique de l'Opéra (1674) in which he praised the merits of Alceste over the tragedy of the same name by Euripides . </P> <P> This treatise on Alceste initiated the Quarrel of the Ancients and the Moderns (Querelle des Anciens et des Modernes), which pitted supporters of the literature of Antiquity (the "Ancients") against supporters of the literature from the century of Louis XIV (the "Moderns"). He was on the side of the Moderns and wrote Le Siècle de Louis le Grand (The Century of Louis the Great, 1687) and Parallèle des Anciens et des Modernes (Parallel between Ancients and Moderns, 1688--1692) where he attempted to prove the superiority of the literature of his century . Le Siècle de Louis le Grand was written in celebration of Louis XIV's recovery from a life - threatening operation . Perrault argued that because of Louis's enlightened rule, the present age was superior in every respect to ancient times . He also claimed that even modern French literature was superior to the works of antiquity, and that, after all, even Homer nods . </P>

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