Jean de La Fontaine, baptized on July 8, 1621 in the Saint-Crépin-hors-les-murs church in Château-Thierry and died on April 13, 1695 in Paris, is a man of letters of the Great Century and one of the main representatives of French classicism. In addition to his Fables and Contes libertines, which established his fame in the 1660s, we owe him various poems, plays and opera librettos which confirm his ambition as a moralist.
Né le 8 juillet 1621 et mort le 13 avril 1695, Jean de La Fontaine est un poète français principalement connu pour ses Fables et son ambition de moraliste. Ses Fables, qui s’inspirent notamment d’Ésope, sont des incontournables de la littérature française, la maîtrise des vers et...
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