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What gives La Fontaine's Fables their rare distinction is the freshness in narration, the deftness of touch, the unconstrained suppleness of metrical structure, the unfailing humor of the pointed moral, the consummate art of their apparent artlessness. Keen insight into the foibles of human nature is found throughout, but in the later books ...
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
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 the Great". [10] The next appearance was the prose version in the Modern Fables section of Robert Dodsley 's Select Fables of Esop and Other Fabulists (1761), in ...
Gustave Doré's illustration of the fable, published in 1880. The vultures and the pigeons is a fable of Jean de la Fontaine [1] adapted from a Latin original by Laurentius Abstemius, [2] where it was titled De acciptribus inter se inimicis quos columbae pacaverant (The warring hawks pacified by doves).
Gustave Doré's 1867 print of the ape astride a sea monster. The Ape (or monkey) and the Dolphin is one of Aesop's Fables and is numbered 73 in the Perry Index. [1] Due to its appearance among La Fontaine's Fables, it has always been popular in France, but in Britain treatment of the story was rarer until the 19th century.
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]
The Old Cat and the Young Mouse (Le vieux chat et la jeune souris) is a late fable by Jean de la Fontaine (XII.5). [1] Written towards the end of his life, its grim conclusion is that 'Youth thinks its every wish will gain success; Old age is pitiless.'
There were also several French composite publications combining the text of La Fontaine’s fable with serial illustrations. These included separate sheets by Hermann Vogel, which could also be combined in an album, [11] and Louis-Maurice Boutet de Monvel’s Jean de La Fontaine, 26 fables, [12] both published in 1888.