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For the full article, see Jean de La Fontaine . Jean de La Fontaine, (born July 8?, 1621, Château-Thierry, France—died April 13, 1695, Paris), French poet. He made important contacts in Paris, where he was able to attract patrons and spend his most productive years as a writer.
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May 29, 2018 · The French poet and man of letters Jean de La Fontaine (1621-1695) was one of the great French classical authors. He preferred to work in relatively minor and unexploited genres, such as the fable and the verse tale.
Jean de La Fontaine (July 8, 1621 – April 13, 1695) was the most famous French fabulist and probably the most widely read French poet of the seventeenth century. According to Gustave Flaubert , he was the only French poet to understand and master the texture of the French language before Hugo .
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.
Poet and fabulist 1621-1695. Famous fabulist of the XVII eth century, Jean de La Fontaine was a close friend of Nicolas Fouquet, Louis XIV's Superintendent of Finances. Far from the daily life at court, he enters the French Academy in 1684.
Jean de La Fontaine - Fables, Poems, Contes: La Fontaine’s many miscellaneous writings include much occasional verse in a great variety of poetic forms and dramatic or pseudodramatic pieces such as his first published work, L’Eunuque (1654), and Climène (1671), as well as poems on subjects as different as Adonis (1658, revised 1669), La ...
May 30, 2005 · The poet Jean de la Fontaine was born at Château-Thierry on July 8, 1621. He was a kindly, merry, and generous man and much beloved. His fables were written in verse and were published in three collections at different times of his life.
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