La Fontaine
Verse fables author
La Fontaine refers to Jean de La Fontaine (1621–1695), a French poet best known for his Fables—verse tales featuring animals that satirize human nature and society.
His fables, drawing on Aesop and other classical sources, remain foundational texts in French literature and education: Every French schoolchild learns La Fontaine.
The name sometimes appears in references to moral lessons delivered through animal allegory.
- AesopAncient Greek fable writer
- fablesDidactic animal stories
- sour grapesDisparaging the unattainable
- animal talesStories starring creatures
- 17th centuryYears 1601-1700
animal characters · poetry · pedagogy · Louis XIV · Sun King · illustrators · anthropomorphism · Versailles · reed · rhyme scheme · tortoise · slow and steady · oak · absolutism · wolf · lamb · country mouse · children's literature
- fábulas
- fablesfable, Aesop, Aesop's fables, Aesop fables, tortoise and hare
- 17th Century FiguresOliver Cromwell, Louis XIV, Isaac Newton, Rene Descartes, Rembrandt
- Baroque Era FiguresDescartes, Spinoza, Leibniz, Locke, Hobbes
- Bourbon FranceVersailles, the Sun King, Louis XV, Colbert, Edict of Nantes
- FabulistsAesop, fabulist, James Thurber, Thurber
La FontaineÉmile Zola
Gustave Flaubert · Marcel Proust · Samuel Beckett · Marquis de Sade · Guy de Maupassant