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Contes et nouvelles en vers (English: Tales and Novellas in Verse) is an anthology of various ribald short stories and novellas collected and versified from prose by Jean de La Fontaine. Claude Barbin of Paris published the collection in 1665.
Jean de La Fontaine (UK: / ˌ l æ f ɒ n ˈ t ɛ n,-ˈ t eɪ n /, [1] US: / ˌ l ɑː f ɒ n ˈ t eɪ n, l ə-, ˌ l ɑː f oʊ n ˈ t ɛ n /; [2] [3] French: [ʒɑ̃ d(ə) la fɔ̃tɛn]; 8 July 1621 – 13 April 1695) was a French fabulist and one of the most widely read French poets of the 17th century.
story by Jean de La Fontaine: Choral: 1963: La grenouille qui se veut faire aussi grosse que le bœuf: The Frog Who Wished to Be as Big as an Ox: male chorus and piano: story by Jean de La Fontaine: Vocal: 1963: Le coq et le renard: The Rooster and the Fox: soprano or tenor and piano, or 2 tenors, 2 baritones and piano: story by Jean de La ...
The fisherman and the little fish (Le petit poisson et le pêcheur, V.3) The Fly and the Ant (La mouche et la fourmi, IV.3) The Forest and the Woodcutter (La forêt et le bûcheron, X11.16) The fox and the bust (Le renard et le buste, IV.14) The fox and the crow (Le corbeau et le renard, I.2) The Fox and the Grapes (Le renard et les raisins ...
A slightly expanded English version of La Fontaine's fable appeared a quarter century later in Bernard de Mandeville's misleadingly titled Aesop Dress’d (1704). It keeps La Fontaine's title of "The Plague among the Beasts", however, and the socio-economic focus of his moral: "The Fable shews you poor Folk's fate/ Whilst Laws can never reach ...
Le Dieu de nuit 1973: La Lumière du silence Éditions du Seuil, 1978; 12 Dits 1980: Les Mots magiques 1980: Toutes les îles sont secrètes Éditions du Seuil, 1984, ISBN 978-2-02-006787-4; La Terre du sacre, suivi de "La Braise et la Rivière" 1989: Sous de grands vents obscurs Seuil, 1990; Le Dieu de nuit suivi de "La Lumière du silence" 1990:
Jean-Paul Sartre – La Nausée , L´Âge de Raison (The Age of Reason) Françoise Sagan – Bonjour Tristesse (Hello Sadness) Antoine de Saint-Exupéry – Le Petit Prince (The Little Prince) 21st century. Michel Houellebecq – La carte et le territoire (The Map and the Territory) Pierre Lemaitre – The Great Swindle
Later in the 19th century, Jacques Offenbach, having already set the fable for soloist and small orchestra as part of his 6 fables de la Fontaine in 1842, [25] wrote the music for a one-act comic opera, Le financier et le savetier (1856), with a script by Hector-Jonathan Crémieux [26] in which the heroine sings a parody of his own setting.