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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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    fabulist and storyteller credited with a number of fables now collectively known as Aesop's Fables. Although his existence remains unclear and no writings...
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    story in La Fontaine's Fables (VI.10), while more long-winded, differs hardly at all from Aesop's. As in several other fables by Aesop, the lesson it...
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  • mythology Learchus, the governor of Cyzicus in Edmé Boursault's plays Les fables d'Esope and Esope à la cour This disambiguation page lists articles associated...
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    The Frogs and the Sun (category Aesop's Fables)
    Edmé Boursault adapted the fable's story line but substituted other characters in his play from this period, Les Fables d'Ésope (1690). Meeting a father...
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    The Monkey and the Cat (category La Fontaine's Fables)
    subsequently appeared in Les fables d'Ésope, mises en françois, avec le sens moral en quatre vers, & des figures à chaque fable (Aesop's fables in French, with a...
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    The labyrinth of Versailles (category Aesop's Fables)
    the fable was printed, with verse written by Isaac de Benserade. It was from these plaques that Louis XIV’s son learned to read. In his Fables d'Ésope en...
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    The Eagle and the Fox (category Aesop's Fables)
    The Eagle and the Fox is a fable of friendship betrayed and avenged. Counted as one of Aesop’s Fables, it is numbered 1 in the Perry Index. The central...
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    The Bear and the Bees (category Fables by Laurentius Abstemius)
    authors who include the fable in their collections often stay close to the Abstemius version. In Isaac de Benserade's Les fables d'Ésope, mises en françois...
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    (1800), and Gaetano Donizetti (1834). Les Fables d'Ésope, comédie or Ésope à la Ville (English: Aesop's Fables or Aesop in the City, 1690). A moralistic...
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    1669 Ballet royal de Flore 1676 Métamorphoses d’Ovide en rondeaux 1678 Fables d'Ésope en quatrains 1681 Ballet du Triomphe de l’Amour 1682 Labyrinte de Versailles...
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  • The Eagle Wounded by an Arrow (category Aesop's Fables)
    the Gazette Drouot Fables d'Ésope mises en François, 1678, fable 179 Frasnay, Pierre ¬de (1750). "Mythologie, Ou Recueil Des Fables Grecques, Esopiques...
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    The Mountain in Labour (category Aesop's Fables)
    followed La Fontaine’s lead in applying the fable to boastful authors. In his Nouveau recueil des fables d'Esope mises en français, avec le sens moral en...
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  • The Young Man and the Swallow (category Aesop's Fables)
    in French in Les Fables d'Esope Phrygien, mises en Ryme Francoise (1542) and in Latin by Hieronymus Osius (1564). In England the fable does not appear...
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  • Death is one of Aesop's Fables and is numbered 60 in the Perry Index. Because this was one of the comparatively rare fables featuring humans, it was...
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    The Oak and the Reed (category Aesop's Fables)
    University of Wisconsin, 2005, pp. 62-3 Les Fables d'Esope Phrygien, mises en Ryme Francoise, Fable 81 Centum Fabulae, fable 50 Cento favole morali (1570), p.87...
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  • Le festin d'Ésope (Aesop's Feast), Op. 39 No. 12, is a piano étude by Charles-Valentin Alkan. It is the final étude in the set Douze études dans tous...
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  • authored some operas, but is mostly known for his fables. A first collection was published under the title Fables nouvelles, suivies de poésies fugitives (Paris...
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    & 1843. Recueil de 123 fables en 5 livres, imitées d'Ésope. - Complété par l'"Appendix Perottina", contenant 30 ou 32 fables et le "Phaedrus solutus"...
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    (with A.-C. Klebs), 1925 Ponthus et la Belle Sidoine, 1926 Les subtiles fables d'Esope (with J. Bastin et Cl. Dalbanne), 1927 Joan Evans, La civilisation en...
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  • first to occupy the Academy's seat 31 in 1634. Boissat translated Les fables d'Esope Phrygien, illustrées de Discours moraux, philosophiques et politiques...
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    (1781). Ebook Nederduytsche poëmata (1635). Ebook Fables de La Fontaine : précédées de la Vie d'Ésope (1882). Ebook Gallerie du Palais du Luxembourg (1710)...
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  • Mirrors. Lalande approaches the Bosquet d'Esope, a labyrinth containing ornate fountains with one of Aesop's many fables displayed underneath. The paper instructs...
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  • remembered probably by his fables, first published in 1837 under the title of Glanures d'Esope (reissued in 1854 as Fables et paraboles), though in his...
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