Fables. BILINGUA. Lafontaine J. de

Jean de Lafontaine - an outstanding satirist and a free thinker, was the best fabric of the New Age. Borrowing the plots of Aesop and other ancient authors, as well as the eastern sages, he creates a bizarre menagerie, personifying the then French society of the era of Louis Fourteenth. Around the crowned lion, ferocious and loving, the flattering and obsolete courtiers are crowded, the spell animals are flattered, freeze, intrigue, gnaw at the warm place at the court. "Yes, quit destroy each other, gentlemen!" - The poet appeals to them.

In those days, there were certainly the Bible and fables of Lafontaine in the house of every French peasant, in France of the 21st century, they already get acquainted with the school bench. It was not without reason that he was called the French Homer, and his fables “Raven and Fox” and “Dragonfly and Ant” and many others know almost every Frenchman.