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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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  • 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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    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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  • 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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    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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    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 Fox and the Crow (Aesop) (category La Fontaine's Fables)
    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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    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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  • Fables de La Fontaine) (Text: Jean de La Fontaine) (1935) L'oiseau blessé d'une flèche (in Trois Fables de La Fontaine) (Text: Jean de La Fontaine) (1935)...
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    created to illustrate an already existing proverb. The French author Jean de La Fontaine also adapted the first of these fables as Le chartier embourbé (Fables...
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    Poussin, painter Philippe de Champaigne, painter Charles Le Brun, playwright Molière, poet Jean de La Fontaine, playwright Jean Racine, playwright Pierre...
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    de la Concorde, formant les limites de la place, valorisent les richesses économiques du pays". 15 August 2015. Barozzi, Jacques, "Paris de Fontaine en...
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  • Marguerite de Carrouges (née de Thibouville; 1362, Château de Fontaine-la-Soret (Eure) – c. 1419) was a French noblewoman. She married Jean de Carrouges...
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  • École Française de Harare or Groupe Scolaire Jean de La Fontaine is a French international school in Vainona, Harare, Zimbabwe. Registered with the Agency...
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    salonist and polymath, friend and patron of Jean de La Fontaine, was the wife of Antoine Rambouillet, sieur de la Sablière (1624–1679), a Protestant financier...
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    The Monkey and the Cat (category La Fontaine's Fables)
    The Monkey and the Cat is best known as a fable adapted by Jean de La Fontaine under the title Le Singe et le Chat that appeared in the second collection...
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    The Fontaines de la Concorde are two monumental fountains located in the Place de la Concorde in the center of Paris. They were designed by Jacques Ignace...
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    by Jules Barbier and Michel Carré based on the poem Le Faucon by Jean de La Fontaine, itself after a tale (V,9) in The Decameron of Giovanni Boccaccio...
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    Marquis de la Faye. This château evokes part of France's history, through illustrious characters like the Condés, the Savoies, Jean de La Fontaine, Cardinal...
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    The Wolf and the Lamb (category La Fontaine's 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 de la...
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    by Gaston Velle. The film is inspired by the eponymous fable by Jean de La Fontaine, itself based on Aesop's fable The Goose that Laid the Golden Eggs...
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    collected and versified from prose by Jean de La Fontaine. Claude Barbin of Paris published the collection in 1665. La Fontaine drew from several French and Italian...
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    without a reliable source. Château-Thierry is the birthplace of Jean de La Fontaine and was the location of the First Battle of the Marne and Second...
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  • its name from the fable "The Monkey and the Cat," attributed to Jean de La Fontaine. In the fable, a cunning monkey persuades a naive cat to retrieve...
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    The Animals Sick of the Plague (category La Fontaine's Fables)
    sick of the plague (in French Les animaux malades de la peste) is a dark fable by Jean de la Fontaine about the inequality of justice. It was published...
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    Macbeth, Niccolò Machiavelli flattered Lorenzo II de' Medici in The Prince and Jean de La Fontaine flattered Louis, Grand Dauphin in his Fables. Many...
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  • Machiavelli & Jean de La Fontaine - Harry Kumel) "L'Épreuve de l'amour" (Giuseppe Celentano - Alain Schwartzstein) "Elle et lui" (Marquis de Mirabeau Mirabeau...
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