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    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...
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    Aesop's Fables, or the Aesopica, is a collection of fables credited to Aesop, a slave and storyteller who lived in ancient Greece between 620 and 564 BCE...
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    Jean de La Fontaine (UK: /ˌlæ fɒnˈtɛn, -ˈteɪn/, US: /ˌlɑː fɒnˈteɪn, -, ˌlɑː foʊnˈtɛn/, French: [ʒɑ̃ d(ə) la fɔ̃tɛn]; 8 July 1621 – 13 April 1695) was...
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    The Ant and the Grasshopper (category La Fontaine's Fables)
    Trois Fables de Jean de la Fontaine (1919) for voice and piano Paul-Marie Masson, for voice and piano (1926) Maurice Delage in Deux fables de Jean de la Fontaine...
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    The Fox and the Grapes (category La Fontaine's Fables)
    would do well to apply this story to themselves. In her version of La Fontaine's Fables, Marianne Moore underlines his ironic comment on the situation in...
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    The Wolf and the Lamb (category La Fontaine's Fables)
    his Fables de La Fontaine (Op. 72 1875) Charles Lecocq in Six Fables de Jean de la Fontaine for voice and piano (1900) André Caplet in Trois Fables de Jean...
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    The Fox and the Crow (Aesop) (category La Fontaine's Fables)
    Trois Fables de Jean de la Fontaine (1919) for voice and piano, in a forcefully dramatised version Maurice Delage in Deux fables de Jean de la Fontaine (1931)...
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    Zoé Clauzure (category Musicians from Hauts-de-Seine)
    In October 2021, she released an album Les Fables de La Fontaine en chansons (meaning 'La Fontaine's Fables in song form') as part of the singing group...
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    The Town Mouse and the Country Mouse (category La Fontaine's Fables)
    Aesop's Fables. It is number 352 in the Perry Index and type 112 in Aarne–Thompson's folk tale index. Like several other elements in Aesop's fables, "town...
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    Belling the Cat (category La Fontaine's Fables)
    as part of his 20 Fables inspirées de Jean de la Fontaine (1995), and a jazz arrangement on Daniel Roca's 10 Fables de La Fontaine (2005). Collective...
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