  A stability result in terms of the perimeter is obtained for the first
Dirichlet eigenvalue of the Laplacian operator. In particular, we prove that,
once we fix the dimension $n\geq2$, there exists a constant $c>0$, depending
only on $n$, such that, for every $\Omega\subset\mathbb{R}^n$ open, bounded and
convex set with volume equal to the volume of a ball $B$ with radius $1$, it
holds \begin{equation*}
  \lambda_1(\Omega)-\lambda_1(B)\geq c\left(P(\Omega)-P(B) \right)^{2},
\end{equation*} where by $\lambda_1(\cdot)$ we denote the first Dirichlet
eigenvalue of a set and by $P(\cdot)$ its perimeter. The hearth of the present
paper is a sharp estimate of the Fraenkel asymmetry in terms of the perimeter.
