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Jean de La Fontaine (UK: / ˌ l æ f ɒ n ˈ t ɛ n,-ˈ t eɪ n /, US: / ˌ l ɑː f ɒ n ˈ t eɪ n, l ə-, ˌ l ɑː f oʊ n ˈ t ɛ n /, 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.
Jean de La Fontaine was a poet whose Fables rank among the greatest masterpieces of French literature. La Fontaine was born in the Champagne region into a bourgeois family. There, in 1647, he married an heiress, Marie Héricart, but they separated in 1658.
Jean de La Fontaine (July 8, 1621 – April 13, 1695) was the most famous French fabulist and probably the most widely read French poet of the seventeenth century. According to Gustave Flaubert , he was the only French poet to understand and master the texture of the French language before Hugo .
May 29, 2018 · Jean de La Fontaine. The French poet and man of letters Jean de La Fontaine (1621-1695) was one of the great French classical authors. He preferred to work in relatively minor and unexploited genres, such as the fable and the verse tale.
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Jean de La Fontaine, (born July 8?, 1621, Château-Thierry, France—died April 13, 1695, Paris), French poet. He made important contacts in Paris, where he was able to attract patrons and spend his most productive years as a writer.
La Fontaine unites the two major contrasting aesthetics found in the literature of seventeenth century France: artistic exuberance and classical restraint. Of the two, the former is best ...
Famous fabulist of the XVIIeth century, Jean de La Fontaine was a close friend of Nicolas Fouquet, Louis XIV's Superintendent of Finances. Far from the daily life at court, he enters the French Academy in 1684.
Apr 22, 2015 · Jean de La Fontaine (1621-1695) was born in Château-Thierry on the western border of the province of Champagne, a small town surrounded by the woods and fields which provide the setting for many of his fables in a landscape traversed by the River Marne.
Jean de La Fontaine (IPA: [ʒɑ̃ də la fɔ̃tɛn]; 8 July 1621 – 13 April 1695) was the first of the French fabulist. He was one of the most widely read French poets of the 17th century. He is known for his fables. These provided a model for later fabulists across Europe.
