Charles Perrault was a seventeenth-century French author and literary theoretician who is credited with creating the fairy tale genre. Perrault was born in a well-to-do bourgeois family of Paris. He studied law and spent the early years of his career working in the government and the court of King Louis XIV. Perrault also held influential positions in various councils including the ‘Académie Française’. Perrault’s career as a writer flourished only after the end of his political career. As a literary figure, Perrault is best known for his stand on the Modern versus Ancient debate. He was the leader of the Modern group and argued against traditionalism in literature. Perrault authored several poems, epic poetry and literary treatises but the one work that has made the deepest impact and continues to do so even today are his fairy tales. Written for his children these were retellings of traditional oral folk tales. On its publication, the collection of fairy tales titled ‘The Tales of Mother Goose’ captured the attention of the French society with its captivating and memorable stories. The fact that these tales are getting remade into movies even today speak about the timelessness of Perrault’s storytelling genius.