OLIVIER BARROT RACONTE JEAN DE LA FONTAINE

JEAN DE LA FONTAINE on the occasion of the 400th anniversary of his birth. What astonishing character, what a prodigious stylist! School made him familiar to us, and we all learned some of his fables by heart. This very little used genre, he knew how to elevate it into a model of intelligence, humor, wisdom. Friend of Molière and Racine, courtier closer to Fouquet than to Louis XIV, author of little-known erotic tales, this great seducer arrives a day late at the royal table: he had let the hour pass by observing a colony of ants ! Portrait of an original that has become classic.

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