Definition of La Fontaine

1. Noun. French writer who collected Aesop's fables and published them (1621-1695).

Exact synonyms: Jean De La Fontaine
Generic synonyms: Author, Writer

Lexicographical Neighbors of La Fontaine

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L doses
L form
L myc
L ring
La
La-La Land
La.
LaPerm
LaSalle
LaTonya
LaVeyan
LaVeyan Satanism
La Crosse
La Fayette
La Fontaine (current term)
La Marseillaise
La Niña
La Paz
La Plata
La Pérouse Strait
La Rioja
La Rochefoucauld
La Rochelle
La Spezia
La Tour
La Toya
La Vergne
La Verne
La protein

Literary usage of La Fontaine

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. The Encyclopædia Britannica: A Dictionary of Arts, Sciences, Literature and by Hugh Chisholm (1911)
"It may only be said that satire (and La fontaine is eminently a satirist) ... Exception has • passed upon La fontaine's Fables is that of Silvestre de Sacy^ ..."

2. The Quarterly Review by William Gifford, John Taylor Coleridge, John Gibson Lockhart, Whitwell Elwin, William Macpherson, William Smith, John Murray, Rowland Edmund Prothero Ernle, George Walter Prothero (1820)
"But it is not by his wit alone that La Fontaine exerts so powerful an influence ... Though verse seems to be the natural language of a poet, yet La Fontaine ..."

3. The Encyclopedia Americana: A Library of Universal Knowledge (1919)
"The curious personality of La Fontaine has given rise .to many stories concerning his life and habits. The candor and simplicity of his character acquired ..."

4. A Short History of French Literature: (from the Earliest Texts to the Close by George Saintsbury (1901)
"The spirit of the Fabliaux had been dead, or at any rate dormant, since Marot and Rabelais; La Fontaine revived it- Even purists, like his friend Boileau, ..."

5. The Encyclopaedia Britannica: A Dictionary of Arts, Sciences, and General by Thomas Spencer Baynes (1888)
"The next year Colbert died and La Fontaine was again nominated. Boileau was abo a candidate, but the first ballot gave the fabulist sixteen votes against ..."

6. Classical (imaginary) Conversations: Greek, Roman, Modern by Walter Savage Landor, Graeme Mercer Adam (1901)
"La Fontaine. I never go to court. They say one cannot go without silk ... La Fontaine. I thought so too, and grew the warmer at being unable to find a wisp ..."

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