The labyrinth of Versailles was a hedge maze in the Gardens of Versailles with groups of fountains and sculptures depicting Aesop's fables. [1] André Le...

with groups of trees enclosed by hedges. It was possible to get lost in the much-admired labyrinth of Versailles, built for Louis XIV of France in 1677...

The Boy Who Cried Wolf is one of Aesop's Fables, numbered 210 in the Perry Index. From it is derived the English idiom "to cry wolf", defined as "to give...

in the 1933 Russian novel The German Quarter by Lev Nitoburg. The fable also appears in the 1944 novel The Hunter of the Pamirs, and this is the earliest...

statue of it in the labyrinth of Versailles. He can therefore afford a thoughtful, moralising tone: Pleasures are dear and difficult to get. Feasting the eye...

son, he incorporated the series of hydraulic statues representing 38 chosen fables in the labyrinth of Versailles in the 1670s. In this he had been advised...

and the Lion The Cat and the Mice The Crab and the Fox The Cock and the Jewel The Cock, the Dog and the Fox The Crow and the Pitcher The Crow and the Sheep...

neither ugly nor a slave. Perhaps the most elaborate celebration of Aesop and his fables was the Labyrinth of Versailles, a hedge maze constructed for Louis...

fountains each representing one of the fables of Aesop in the labyrinth of Versailles in the gardens of Versailles. The work was carried out between 1672...

Louis XIV of France for the labyrinth of Versailles, a hedge maze of hydraulic statues created for him in 1669 in the Gardens of Versailles, at the suggestion...