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The Two Pigeons. The Two Pigeons (original French title: Les deux pigeons) is a fable by Jean de la Fontaine (Book IX.2) that was adapted as a ballet with music by André Messager in the 19th century and rechoreagraphed to the same music by Frederick Ashton in the 20th.
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 under the general title of Fables in several volumes from 1668 to 1694 and are considered classics of French literature. Humorous, nuanced and ironical, they were originally aimed at adults but ...
Les Deux Pigeons. Les Deux Pigeons can refer to: The Two Pigeons, a fable by Jean de la Fontaine. Les Deux Pigeons (ballet) with music by André Messager and a libretto based on the fable.
Jean de La Fontaine (UK: / ˌlæ fɒnˈtɛn, - ˈteɪn /, [1] US: / ˌlɑː fɒnˈteɪn, lə -, ˌlɑː foʊnˈtɛn /; [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. He is known above all for his Fables, which provided a model ...
The Animals Sick of the Plague. An engraving of Jean-Baptiste Oudry 's illustration, showing the condemnation of the ass, 1755. The animals sick of the plague (in French Les animaux malades de la peste) [1] is a dark fable by Jean de la Fontaine about the inequality of justice. It was published in 1678 at the head of his second volume of Fables ...
The Cobbler and the Financier. The Cobbler and the Financier (Le Savetier et le Financier) is one of La Fontaine's Fables that deals directly with a human situation rather than mediating it through the behaviour of animal stereotypes. An adaptation from a Classical Latin source, it gained some currency in England during the 18th century and ...
The Bear and the Gardener is a fable originating in the ancient Indian text Panchatantra that warns against making foolish friendships. [1] There are several variant versions, both literary and oral, across the world and its folk elements are classed as Aarne-Thompson -Uther type 1586. The La Fontaine version has been taken as demonstrating ...
Coloured print of La Fontaine's fable by Jean-Baptiste Oudry, c. 1750. The Ant and the Grasshopper, alternatively titled The Grasshopper and the Ant (or Ants), is one of Aesop's Fables, numbered 373 in the Perry Index. [ 1 ] The fable describes how a hungry grasshopper begs for food from an ant when winter comes and is refused.