The Fables of La Fontaine (Dodo Press)
La Fontaine, Jean de / Gibbs, J. W. M. / Wright, Elizur
Jean de La Fontaine was the most famous French fabulist and probably the most widely read French poet of the 17th century. According to Flaubert, he was the only French poet to understand and master the texture of the French language before Hugo. The works of La Fontaine, the total bulk of which is considerable, fall no less naturally than traditionally into three divisions, the Fables, the Contes and the miscellaneous works. Of these the firs...