  The Faber-Krahn deficit $\delta\lambda$ of an open bounded set $\Omega$ is
the normalized gap between the values that the first Dirichlet Laplacian
eigenvalue achieves on $\Omega$ and on the ball having same measure as
$\Omega$. For any given family of open bounded sets of $\R^N$ ($N\ge 2$)
smoothly converging to a ball, it is well known that both $\delta\lambda$ and
the isoperimetric deficit $\delta P$ are vanishing quantities. It is known as
well that, at least for convex sets, the ratio $\frac{\delta P}{\delta
\lambda}$ is bounded by below by some positive constant (see \cite{BNT,PW}),
and in this note, using the technique of the shape derivative, we provide the
explicit optimal lower bound of such a ratio as $\delta P$ goes to zero.
