[1] He trained at the Paris Opera School alongside Lucette Almanzor, the second wife of writer Louis-Ferdinand Céline.
During the occupation of France during the Second World War, Perrault avoided the Service du travail obligatoire by seeking refuge with Gen Paul and Céline.
He performed as a comedian-dancer in the troupe of Jean-Louis Barrault during a production of Hamlet, which toured the United States in 1952.
In 1957, Perrault played the role of Max in the film Folies-Bergère directed by Henri Decoin.
Beginning in 1957, first at the Conservatoire de Créteil, he later moved to give dance lessons as a "professor of improvement" at the School of the Paris Opera between 1977 and 1987.