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    The Scorpion and the Frog (category Fables)
    is an animal fable which teaches that vicious people cannot resist hurting others even when it is not in their own interests. This fable seems to have...
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    The Frogs Who Desired a King (category Aesop's Fables)
    began to express their feelings through this fable too. A cartoon dating from 1791 and titled Le roi soliveau, ou les grenouilles qui demandent un roi (King...
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    Awakened") "Histoire d'Aladdin ou la Lampe merveilleuse" ("The Story of Aladdin, or the Wonderful Lamp") "Suite de l'Histoire d'Aladdin ou la Lampe merveilleuse"...
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    by Charles Perrault and first published by Barbin in Paris in 1697 in Histoires ou contes du temps passé. The tale tells the story of a wealthy man in the...
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    of the experimental method. Milo wrote a manifesto, "Pour une histoire expérimentale ou La gaie science" (Toward an Experimental History or The Gay Science)...
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    Carmente, histoire grecque (1668) Cléonice ou le Roman galant. Nouvelle (1669) Les Désordres de l’amour (1675) Les Exilés (1672-1673) Fables ou Histoires allégoriques...
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    Caluso] sur un passage de la vie de Vittorio Alfieri, 1809 Fables nouvelles, 1810 Histoire littéraire d’Italie, 1811 Notice sur la vie et les ouvrages...
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    François Moureau, Paris, Fayard, 1995 François Moureau, « Les Fables nouvelles (1719) de La Motte ou comment s'en débarrasser », Le Fablier, #2, 1990 J.G. Robertson...
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    his works derived from earlier folk tales, published in his 1697 book Histoires ou contes du temps passé (Stories or Tales from Past Times). The best known...
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    funèbres, Paris, de La Caille, 1683 L'art des Emblèmes, s'enseigne la morale par les figures de la fable, de l'histoire, & de la nature. Paris, de La Caille...
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