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Jean de La Fontaine - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
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Jean de La Fontaine (1621-1695) ... Jean de La Fontaine was born in Château-Thierry, Champagne, in central France, the son of a government official. ... Marianne Moore, 1954 [Moore was encouraged to undertake the project by W.H. Auden]) / The Fables of La Jean de la Fontaine (2 vols., tr. Joseph Auslander and Jacques Le...
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Britannica online encyclopedia article on Jean de La Fontaine (French poet), July 8?1621, Château-Thierry, France April 13, 1695Parispoet whose Fables rank among the greatest masterpieces of French literature. ... Aspects of the topic "Jean de La Fontaine" are discussed in the following places at Britannica...
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d. at Paris, 13 April, 1695. He was the eldest son of Charles de la Fontaine, a deputy-ranger, and Françoise Pidoux. After he had finished his studies at the college of his native town, he entered the Oratory (2 April, 1641) and was sent to the Seminary of Saint-Magloire.
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Tales and Novels of J. de La Fontaine - Volume 03 - La Fontaine, Jean de, 1621-1695; Book from Project Gutenberg: Tales and Novels of J. de La Fontaine - Volume 03 Library of Congress Classification: PQ; Downloads: 85...
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Books by Jean de La Fontaine: Fables, Selected Fables (Penguin Classics), Fables choisies, livres I à VI, texte intégral, Contes et nouvelles en vers, Honderd fabels, Fables - Tome 2, La Fontaine : Oeuvres complètes, tome 1, Forbidden Fruit: Selected Tales in Verse, Fabler och noveller, The rich man and the shoe-maker : ...
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Jean de La Fontaine (born July 8?, 1621, Château-Thierry, France — died April 13, 1695, Paris) French poet ... For more information on Jean de La Fontaine, visit Britannica.com.
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Jean de La Fontaine was born on the 8th of July, 1621, at Chateau-Thierry, and his family held a respectable position there. His education was neglected, but he had received that genius which makes amends for all.
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La Fontaine's longest tale, Les Amours de Psyché et de Cupidon, is his most ambitious completed work.1 Like the unfinished Songe de Vaux, it utilizes a mixed style of prose and verse. For structure, however, there is no comparable work by him or any other classical French writer.
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La Fontaine, Jean de 1621-1695. Overview ..... 1500-1700 Adaptations Aesop Amours de Psyché et de Cupidon (La Fontaine, Jean de) Animals Authors, ...
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