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...

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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...

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...

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...

De la fontaine, De Lafontaine or Delafontaine may refer to: Mademoiselle De Lafontaine, also known as La Fontaine, (1655–1738), French ballerina regarded...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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)...

de la Concorde, formant les limites de la place, valorisent les richesses économiques du pays". 15 August 2015. Barozzi, Jacques, "Paris de Fontaine en...

Marguerite de Carrouges (née de Thibouville; 1362, Château de Fontaine-la-Soret (Eure) – c. 1419) was a French noblewoman. She married Jean de Carrouges...

École Française de Harare or Groupe Scolaire Jean de La Fontaine is a French international school in Vainona, Harare, Zimbabwe. Registered with the Agency...

Poussin, painter Philippe de Champaigne, painter Charles Le Brun, playwright Molière, poet Jean de La Fontaine, playwright Jean Racine, playwright Pierre...

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...

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...

the Four Columns at the Palais Bourbon in Paris. His Monument to Jean de La Fontaine erected in the Jardin du Ranelagh [fr] in Paris in 1891 was melted...

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...

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...

fabulist Jean de La Fontaine (1621–1695) saw the soul of the fable in the moral—a rule of behavior. Starting with the Aesopian pattern, La Fontaine set out...

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...

Macbeth, Niccolò Machiavelli flattered Lorenzo II de' Medici in The Prince and Jean de La Fontaine flattered Louis XIV of France in his Fables. Many associations...

Machiavelli & Jean de La Fontaine - Harry Kumel) "L'Épreuve de l'amour" (Giuseppe Celentano - Alain Schwartzstein) "Elle et lui" (Marquis de Mirabeau Mirabeau...

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...

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...

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...

Jean Fontaine (2 December 1936 – 1 May 2021) was a French writer, theologian, and missionary. In 1953, Fontaine earned a bachelor's degree in mathematics...

Rouen in an edition of the Fables choisies by Jean de La Fontaine set in Latin verse, published by abbot Jean Saas.  This article incorporates text from...

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...