Abstract
Perrault's stature in the history of French literature and culture during the 1970s and 1980s. With two weighty volumes-Les contes de Perrault, culture savante et traditions populaires (1968), and Le dossier Charles Perrault (1972)-he spawned a great deal of scholarship and critical work on Perrault's writings. Moreover, his recent edition of the Contes (Paris: Flammarion, 1989; 586 pp.) adds to the dossier a wealth of texts and commentary that should fecundate Perraldian studies for years to come. For example, his presentation of the dialogue La Critique de l'Opera, sheds light on the conflict between Perrault and Jean Racine that will concern us here. Soriano situates the polemics of 1674 over Quinault's Alceste as an early round in the Quarrel of the Ancients and Moderns. The exchange is commonly remembered as the occasion of Racine's celebrated putdown of Perrault, in the preface to Iphigenie, for a gross misunderstanding of Euripides' characters, based on a faulty edition of the text.
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