fable. The subject of each of the Fables is often common property of many ages and races. What gives La Fontaine's Fables their rare distinction is the freshness...

de La Fontaine – le défi, however, the poet resists the absolutist rule of Louis XIV after the fall of Fouquet. Biography portal La Fontaine's Fables "La...

of the 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...

version of La Fontaine's fables in the dialect of Martinique was made by François-Achille Marbot (1817–1866) in Les Bambous, Fables de la Fontaine travesties...

Distinguishable but by the Name". Because of the influence of La Fontaine's Fables, in which La cigale et la fourmi stands at the beginning, the grasshopper then...

would do well to apply this story to themselves. In her version of La Fontaine's Fables, Marianne Moore underlines his ironic comment on the situation in...

amplified version of the story in La Fontaine's Fables under the title "The torrent and the river" (Le torrent et la rivière, VIII.23). It tells of a man...

Aesop's Fables. It is number 352 in the Perry Index and type 112 in Aarne–Thompson's folk tale index. Like several other elements in Aesop's fables, "town...

his 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...

of moralising fables based on La Fontaine’s and set to popular tunes of the day, Recueil de fables choisies dans le goût de La Fontaine, sur de petits...

the age of 40. While many of his earlier fables were loosely based on Aesop's and La Fontaine's, later fables were original work, often with a satirical...

century later, La Fontaine's Fables made the tale even better known under the title Conseil tenu par les rats (II.2). In mediaeval times the fable was applied...

recitation with orchestral accompaniment. The fable has also appeared on postage stamps illustrating La Fontaine's fables. These include in the 11 franc commemorative...

to: Aesop's Fables, a collection of fables from ancient Greece La Fontaine's Fables, several volumes by Jean de La Fontaine 1668–1694 Fables, Ancient and...

known as a fable adapted by Jean de La Fontaine under the title Le Singe et le Chat that appeared in the second collection of his Fables in 1679 (IX...

that it appeared in La Fontaine's Fables. Gilles Corrozet, who had compiled a fable collection in French verse earlier than La Fontaine, twice featured the...

while a fox-looking animal is underneath. Since the fable stands at the beginning of La Fontaine's fables, generations of French children commonly learned...

gained lasting popularity after it was included in La Fontaine's Fables (VII.10). The charm of La Fontaine's poetic form apart, however, it differs little...

conclusion drawn by La Fontaine's Fables from the Phaedrus version of the tale, applying it to the artistocratic times in which La Fontaine lived ("The frog...

the others with threats. In La Fontaine's Fables there is a fourfold division between a heifer, a goat and a lamb (Fables I.6). Each of these the lion...

26 Emblem 12 The Complete Fables of Jean de La Fontaine, trans. Norman Shapiro, University of Illinois 2010, IV.11 Fables 3 Mus et Rana aliter Liza Blake...

following century, the caricaturist Grandville turned to illustrating La Fontaine's fables after a censorship law made life difficult for him. There it is a...

This is a list of those fables attributed to the ancient Greek storyteller Aesop, or stories about him, which have Wikipedia articles. Many hundreds of...

back to antiquity. Krasicki's fables and parables have been described as being, "[l]ike Jean de La Fontaine's [fables],... amongst the best ever written...

in La Fontaine's Fables contributed to the fable's growing popularity in Europe. In fact, La Fontaine wrote two and placed them side by side. La Mort...

the fable's moral in depicting plants breaking out of the ground, each sheathing a gold-coloured pearl. Several composers have set La Fontaine's version...

forename and styling himself the lowly rat (rather than mouse). La Fontaine's Fables included a more succinct version of the story (II.11) in the following...

also appeared in Thomas Bewick's Select Fables, but was there told of a bee rather than an ant. La Fontaine's Fables also include this story and underline...

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...

better to be moderate in our desires. Much the same story is told in La Fontaine's Fables (V.1) but in more concentrated form. However, rather than beheading...