Biography of Jean De La Fontaine

Beware of Fables

8 July 1621
13 April 1695
Product of the collective imagination, partaking of a mutual fund of immediate knowledge, probably dating to an Eastern model, the fable you encode in both texts in prose is verse aimed at moral character-didactic, therefore its plot does not end in the story narrative, but rather wants to highlight ethical message, since very often the writers if they earned in relation to a social-political context corrupt , to blame. And it is thanks to Jean De La Fontaine that the fairytale know their moment d'Auge in Europe during the ' 700. Born in Château-Thierry on day 8 July 1621 this delicate but corrosive writer was a dreamer and carefree. His father, Superintendent of waters and forests in Chateau-Thierry, he wished that he were to take the orders, but the little writer couldn't hear for anything suitable for church life.
At the age of twenty-six, instead, married and the father gave him a part of his assignment. In Paris, where he stayed with increasing frequency, he performed the first literary evidence and shared the fate of Nicolas Fouquet, French politician who at that time was at the height of his power. The fall from grace of the latter, in 1661, swooped the writer into serious financial trouble. In 1664 it was picked up by the Duchess of Orléans and in 1672 by Madame de la Sablière. Now sheltered from poverty, had become the friend of Racine, Boileau and Molière, La Fontaine was able to publish a first collection of Fables in 1668, a second in 1678, some tales and opera librettos. In 1684 he entered the Academy of France. However, rather than the title of academician, La Fontaine has to immortality to his literary work and especially in fairy tales that, referring to the ancient Latin models (especially, of course, to Aesop), are certainly his most successful and inspired, especially because paint 17th century French society. The Narrator, in fact, in these mini-stories, sort of apologists, put in your mouth to animals words that nobody at that time would have dared to utter.
Especially because, more often than not, they were words that were going to touch sensitive points of the ruling power. You had to definitely have a lot of nerve to do that, a courage that La Fontaine has shown widely to own when, arrested Fouquet, had not hesitated to brave the wrath of the King in an attempt to save her pimp. He died in Paris on 13 April 1695.
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