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  1. Jean de La Fontaine collected fables from a wide variety of sources, both Western and Eastern, and adapted them into French free verse. They were issued under the general title of Fables in several volumes from 1668 to 1694 and are considered classics of French literature .

  2. Découvrez les fables de La Fontaine qui ont marqué la mémoire collective et qui traitent de tous les sujets du quotidien et de la philosophie. Apprenez pourquoi les fables sont intemporelles, brièves et efficaces, et comment interpréter leur morale.

  3. JEAN DE LA FONTAINE. There are some writers the facts about whom can never be entirely told, because they are inexhaustible, and speaking of whom we do not fear to be blamed for repetition, because, though well known, they furnish topics which never weary. La Fontaine is one of this class.

  4. It is an interesting problem to find out what will become of him. Such is the problem worked out in the life of JEAN DE LA FONTAINE, born on the eighth of July, 1621, at Chateau-Thierry. His father, a man of some substance and station, committed two blunders in disposing of his son.

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    • La Fontaine, Jean de, 1621-1695
    • French
    • Grandville, J. J., 1803-1847
    • Fables de La Fontaine
  6. Jean de La Fontaine (born July 8?, 1621, Château-Thierry, France—died April 13, 1695, Paris) was a poet whose Fables rank among the greatest masterpieces of French literature.

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  8. Learn about the life and works of Jean de La Fontaine, the most famous French fabulist who adapted and expanded the fables of Aesop and others. Browse his fables by books, sources and images from an 1819 edition.

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