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L'une des plus célèbre fable de Jean de la Fontaine 

Voici une des plus célèbres fables de Jean de La Fontaine, très joliment illustrée et que les enfants apprennent toujours à l'école. Qui sera le plus malin dans cette histoire : le lièvre ou la tortue ?

Se loger aujourd'hui au Maghreb constitue souvent un problème pour les classes pauvres, et même de plus en plus, selon les pays, pour les classes moyennes. «Architecture ou révolution !», proclamait Le Corbusier : si la crise du logement a laquelle les gouvernants sont ainsi confrontes est sans...

A Journalist in charge of the daily military communiques at French headquarters gives his view of the events as he saw them under the changing French war leadership. Although information on the early years of Jean de Pierrefeu is sketchy, even in his native France, however it is known that he started...

"Some folks say Reynard the Fox is a rascal. They will tell you he is sly, and up to all sorts of tricks. He prowls around at night, smelling the air with his long nose, and listening with his long ears; and when he has done prowling, you may be pretty sure he is not as hungry as when he set...

CONTENTS As Essay on the Life and Works of Jean de la Fontaine xiii The Life of Æsop, the Phrygian xxxiii Dedication to Monseigneur the Dauphin li Preface lv To Monseigneur the Dauphin lxiii The Grasshopper and the Ant 3 The Raven and the Fox 5 The Frog that Wished to make Herself...

In this wonderful, vigorously contemporary translation, Craig Hill has captured the liveliness, satiric wit, and poetic beauty that made Jean de la Fontaine famous during his lifetime and his Fables celebrated as a masterwork of world literature ever since. Despite la Fontaine’s deceptively modest...

Collected in one volume: two women, spouses to French literary figures, setting out to top their husbands in every way possible. The Image, by "Jean de Berg" (Catherine Robbe-Grillet) so thrilled her husband, a somewhat better-known Alain, that he wrote a nifty preface to her work, signing off as...

Il veleno accompagna da sempre l’avvicendarsi delle pulsioni umane più inconfessate o raccapriccianti, da sempre trova riparo nelle nostre case, nascosto negli armadi o celato nei cibi, popolando incubi e sogni delittuosi. Il veleno è compagno della nostra storia e della nostra vita e, al bisogno,...

The Fables of Jean de La Fontaine are classics of French literature. The subject of each of the Fables is often common property of many ages and races. What gives La Fontaine's Fables their rare distinction is the freshness in narration, the deftness...

Second only to Aesop, Jean de la Fontaine was the author of comic and delightful fables that are as alive today as when they first appeared in the 18th century. Based on tales both famous and obscure by an array of classical writers, La Fontaine’s fables offer vivid perspectives on such elemental...

The Fables of Jean de La Fontaine are classics of French literature. The subject of each of the Fables is often common property of many ages and races. What gives La Fontaine's Fables their rare distinction is the freshness in narration, the deftness...

The Fables of Jean de La Fontaine are classics of French literature. The subject of each of the Fables is often common property of many ages and races. What gives La Fontaine's Fables their rare distinction is the freshness in narration, the deftness...

The Fables of Jean de La Fontaine are classics of French literature. The subject of each of the Fables is often common property of many ages and races. What gives La Fontaine's Fables their rare distinction is the freshness in narration, the deftness...