La Fontaine

Noun

Meaning

French writer who collected Aesop's fables and published them (1621-1695)

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[Concerning the love La Fontaine felt for animals] He follows their emotions, he represents their reasonings, he becomes tender, he becomes gay, he participates in their feelings. The factis, he lived in them. [...] The animals contain all the materials of man-sensations, judgments, images. Hippolyte Taine

A film of his life was released in France in April 2007 (Jean de La Fontaine - le défi, starring Lorant Deutsch). Source: Internet

A set of postage stamps celebrating La Fontaine and the Fables was issued by France in 1995. Source: Internet

His wife survived him nearly fifteen years.sfn Anecdotes The curious personal character of La Fontaine, like that of some other men of letters, has been enshrined in a kind of legend by literary tradition. Source: Internet

Few people who paid their court to Fouquet went away empty-handed, and La Fontaine soon received a pension of 1000 livres (1659), on the easy terms of a copy of verses for each quarters receipt. Source: Internet

During the 17th century, the French fabulist Jean de La Fontaine (1621–1695) saw the soul of the fable in the moral — a rule of behavior. Source: Internet

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