La Fontaine, Jean de

A seventeenth-century French author best known for his Fables, in which he pokes gentle fun at the human condition in tales about the tribulations of various animal characters.

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LA FONTAINE, Jean de.—Tales and Novels in verse of J. de La Fontaine illustrated with the eighty fives original plates by Eisen . . .