Jean de La Fontaine

The English one by Wyndham Nachpool was issued in 1819, and that from which the present American edition is copied was issued without translator's name in 1818.

La Fontaine acknowledged his indebtedness to the work, and some 18 of his fables may be traced direct to Bilpai.

It was probably from the English version of 1570 that Beaumont and Fletcher derived the story of the Dervais and the Thief, which appears in the tragic comedy of Women Pleased.

Massinger also makes the same story serve in The Guardian.

Not of him, but of her who interpreted so divinely.

And the little volume of La Fontaine's Fables I gave you at parting.

It never left me.

I kept it here, near my heart.

What's seen by the eye often fades into air.

It makes all the difference when you read it.

It is not La Fontaine.

It is inspiration.

do you know the story of the turtle and the hare? Okay.

This is a good story by Jean de la Fontaine.

And this is one, another one.

It always reminds me about a song.

The English one by Wyndham Knatchbull was issued in 1819, and that from which the present American edition is copied was issued without translator's name in 1818.

La Fontaine acknowledged his indebtedness to the work, and some 18 of his fables may be traced direct to Bilpai.

It was probably from the English version of 1570 that Beaumont and Fletcher derived the story of the Dervise and the Thief, which appears in the tragic comedy of Women Pleased.

Massinger also makes the same story serve in The Guardian.

They sometimes do parodies of that culture too.

So the French fabulist La Fontaine, who's very close to attendees of this salon, he never manages to visit, though they constantly invite him and there's a long correspondence with Jean de La Fontaine.

They take one of his fables and make it queer.

So they take his story of cockerel fighting it with a rival cockerel for the heart of a hen and they turn it into this lesbian love triangle of three hands who don't know what to do when one one meets a new lover, but then they sort of have a nice conversation and there's harmony at the end.

But my first appearance was in a recitation of a French fable, namely the well-known Perrette ou le Poilé.

Footnote, the well-known fable of La Fontaine, Perrette or the Pot of Milk.

I wonder if that's similar to the Porridge Pot.

And I wonder if the Little Quacked Hen is the Henny Penny, that book.

And because his eyes were fixed on the sky, because he wasn't looking at the ground right in front of his own feet, he tumbled headfirst into a well.

And there's a beautiful, if a bit tragic, poetic retelling of this by a French poet, Jean de La Fontaine, included in the book.

It poses this question: How many folks in country and in town neglect their principal affair, and let, for want of due repair, a real house fall down to build a castle in the air?

That is the crux of the problem.

Such gardens were transformed into parks by our knowledgeable masters.

Words not taken from a fable, even if they were from Jean de La Fontaine.

The watchful eyes of Monsieur de la Cantigny monitor the King's splendid orchards and vegetable garden.

In this month of September 1651, a Cantigny presents his horticultural innovations to the head manservant of the King, Nicolas de Bonnefont.

The English one by Wyndham Nachpool was issued in eighteen nineteen, and that from which the present American edition is copied was issued without translator's name in eighteen eighteen.

La Fontaine acknowledged his indebtedness to the work, and some eighteen of his fables may be traced direct to Bilpai.

It was probably from the English version of fifteen seventy that Beaumont and Fletcher derived the story of the Dervise and the Thief, which appears in the tragic comedy of Women Pleased.

Massinger also makes the same story serve in The Guardian.