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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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    Retrieved 31 August 2020. Current Africanist Research: International Bulletin. La Recherche Africaniste en Cours; Bulletin International - International African...
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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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  • that he began to suffer a severe illness. Under such circumstances, Jean de La Fontaine turned to religion. A young priest, M. Poucet, tried to persuade...
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  • De la fontaine, De Lafontaine or Delafontaine may refer to: Mademoiselle De Lafontaine, also known as La Fontaine, (1655–1738), French ballerina regarded...
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    Lycée Jean-de-La-Fontaine is a lycée in the 16th arrondissement of Paris, France. The school building, in the shape of an "open rectangle", was constructed...
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    Musée Jean de La Fontaine is a writer's house museum located in Château-Thierry, France. It is housed in the former house of Jean de La Fontaine, a French...
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    he occupied the 24th seat, to which Jean de La Fontaine was later elected. His son Jean-Baptiste Colbert, Marquis de Seignelay (1651–1690), succeeded him...
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  • Jean de La Fontaine (1621–1695) was a French poet. La Fontaine may also refer to: La Fontaine Park, Montreal, Quebec Doué-la-Fontaine, a former commune...
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    The Ant and the Grasshopper (category La Fontaine's Fables)
    story represented the ant's industry as mean and self-serving. Jean de la Fontaine's delicately ironic retelling in French later widened the debate to...
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