Selected Fables: A Dual-Language BookFirst published between 1668 and 1693, the Fables of La Fontaine rank among the masterpieces of French literature. This volume contains 75 of the best, in the original French with new English line-for-line literal translations. "The Cicada and the Ant," "The City Rat and the Country Rat," "The Fox and the Grapes," many more. |
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Page iv
... Madame de Montespan / To Madame de Montespan (beginning of VII; dedicatory poem to Books VII-XI) Les animaux malades de la peste / The Plague-Stricken Animals (VII, 1) [Ha, Guér] Les souhaits / The Wishes (VII, 6) [medieval Hebrew or ...
... Madame de Montespan / To Madame de Montespan (beginning of VII; dedicatory poem to Books VII-XI) Les animaux malades de la peste / The Plague-Stricken Animals (VII, 1) [Ha, Guér] Les souhaits / The Wishes (VII, 6) [medieval Hebrew or ...
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... Madame de Montespan (as well as a prose preface); Book VII contains 18 numbered fables; Book VIII, 27; Book IX, 19 and, at the end, the unnumbered “Discours a Madame de la Sabliére”; Book X, 15; Book XI, 9 and the Epilogue to the second ...
... Madame de Montespan (as well as a prose preface); Book VII contains 18 numbered fables; Book VIII, 27; Book IX, 19 and, at the end, the unnumbered “Discours a Madame de la Sabliére”; Book X, 15; Book XI, 9 and the Epilogue to the second ...
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Aesop amis animal animaux assez autre avait beau beautiful bête bien bœuf C’est C’était cerf ces gens-là chat cheval chien chose cœur Contre corbeau coup cour d’être d’un d’une Descartes deux Dieu dieux dire discours dit-il donkey encor enfants enfin être eût everything fable faire fait femme fils flatterer Fontaine Fontaine’s gazelle gens homme j’ai j’en jamais jeune John Rabbit jour king L’âne L’animal l’autre l’homme l’on l’ours L’un La Fontaine la fourmi Le corbeau le monde lion logis loup Madame Madame de Montespan maint maître mieux monde mort mots n’en n’est ouvrage pareils pauvre peine petits peuple peut plaisir plein poem poet prend qu’à qu’au qu’en qu’on qu’un quelquefois raison renard rien s’en s’il sage Seigneur seul soins sommes sous sujet temps tête tortue tout trois veut vieillard vient voici voilà voir wolf