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La Fontaine, Jean de

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  1. 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, 19, 125, 250, 395.

From The Library of William Congreve by Hodges, John Cunyus

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