The Nursery had its Marmontel in Armand Berquin, better known by the name of his most famous book, _L’Ami des Enfans_,[76] an addition that no man deserved better then he. Like Perrault, Berquin owed his reputation to a book that he wrote for children; but times had changed: education had now become of so much consequence that the writer of children’s books was regarded as a public benefactor. Perrault the Academician had never openly acknowledged the _Contes_ of 1697; but in 1784, Berquin’s _L’Ami des Enfans_ was crowned by the French Academy.