Jean de la Fontaine
Jean de La Fontaine was a 17th-century French writer famous for his fables. His best-known work is "The Fables of La Fontaine," a collection of short stories featuring anthropomorphized animals that teach moral lessons. La Fontaine's fables are written with great poetic skill and are often imbued with irony and humor. A large part of French history , La Fontaine's fables are a real means of denunciation at a time when censorship was the order of the day.
