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The Acorn and the Pumpkin, in French Le gland et la citrouille, is one of La Fontaine's Fables, published in his second volume (IX.4) in 1679. In English especially, new versions of the story were written to support the teleological argument for creation favoured by English thinkers from the end of the 17th century onwards.
The Acorn and the Pumpkin (Le gland et la citrouille, IX.4) The Animals Sick of the Plague (Les animaux malades de la peste, VII.1) The Ant and the Grasshopper (La cigale et la fourmi, I.1) The Ape and the Dolphin (Le single et le dauphin, IV.7) The Ass and his Masters (L'âne et ses maitres, VI.11) The Ass Carrying Relics (L'âne portant des ...
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.
La Fontaine drew from several French and Italian works of the 15th and 16th centuries, among them The Decameron of Giovanni Boccaccio, Ludovico Ariosto's Orlando Furioso, Antoine de la Sale's collection Cent Nouvelles Nouvelles, and the work of Bonaventure des Périers.
Fables of La Fontaine (TV series) The Farmer and his Sons; The Farmer and the Viper; The Fisherman and his Flute; The Fisherman and the Little Fish; The Fly and the Ant; The Fox and the Cat (fable) The Fox and the Crow (Aesop) The Fox and the Grapes; The Fox and the Mask; The Fox and the Sick Lion; The Fox and the Stork; The Fox and the Weasel
Jeanne was the only child of Jean de la Font and Françoise Godard of Bourges. [1] Marguerite de Navarre arranged her marriage to her secretary Jacques Thiboust. They lived in the city of Bourges, which had become a cultural centre because of the patronage of Jeanne of France at the start of the century. Marguerite attracted many humanists to ...
Jean de La Fontaine (1621–1695), French fabulist and one of the most widely read French poets of the 17th century Léon de la Fontaine (1819–1892), Luxembourgish lawyer, politician and botanist Marc Delafontaine (1837–1911), Swiss chemist who in 1878, along with Jacques-Louis Soret, first observed holmium spectroscopically
There have been two oil paintings based on La Fontaine’s fable. His illustrator Jean-Baptiste Oudry gave the title to a 1751 depiction of a dog fight in the countryside; [4] in the plate later used in the illustrated edition of the fables, other dogs can be seen racing along the path from the town in the distance. [5]