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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).
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]
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.
The story's appearance in La Fontaine's Fables contributed to the fable's growing popularity in Europe. In fact, La Fontaine wrote two and placed them side by side. La Mort et le malheureux (Death and man in misfortune, I.15) is a rewriting of the story in which the main emphasis is placed on the moral to be drawn from the situation.
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.