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[hearty drift]

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[golden relic]

By "perfect tense" I assume you mean the passé composé ? (Which is formed like the English present perfect [have in present tense + past participle], but has a different usage.)

Apparently some French grammars written from an English perspective use the "perfect" terminology, but I don't like it because French and English usage simply don't align

That said, the passé composé is used in many places where the English simple past or present perfect are used.

The passé simple is used in the exact same contexts, but only in literature or storytelling

[hazy geode]

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