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...

Jean de La Fontaine (UK: /ˌlæ fɒnˈtɛn, -ˈteɪn/, US: /ˌlɑː fɒnˈteɪn, lə -, ˌlɑː foʊnˈtɛn/, French: [ʒɑ̃ d(ə) la fɔ̃tɛn]; 8 July 1621 – 13 April 1695) was...

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...

fable retains scarcely a detail from those of Phaedrus or La Fontaine, its dependence on them is unmistakable. The popularity of La Fontaine’s fables...

Cobbler and the Financier (Le Savetier et le Financier) is one of La Fontaine's Fables that deals directly with a human situation rather than mediating...

and covered in beige fabric embroidered with scenes from the fables of Jean de La Fontaine, except for the sofa, which is covered with a pattern of flowers...

Aliboron is that of the donkey in La Fontaine's fable "The thieves and the ass" (Les voleurs et l’âne, I.13); from La Fontaine the word aliboron entered French...

Poème de mai (Tu nous souriais), (A. Silvestre), 1902 Dans la fontaine, (P. Gravollet), 1903 Papillons, (P. Gravollet), February 1903 Le Livre rose, (P...

satirical drawings and for his barbed wit. His updated versions of the fables of La Fontaine were widely reported in the French press. After his own military...

thirty-nine animal fountains in the labyrinth depicting the fables of Jean de La Fontaine. There were so many fountains at Versailles that it was impossible...