The king hastened to approve the choice effusively, adding, Vous pouvez incessamment recevoir La Fontaine, il a promis d'etre sage.
In this the poet is leaning thoughtfully against a rock, hat in hand.
Like her mother before her, Joanne opened her home to the world.
Jean-Antoine Houdon's bust of the fabulist at Vaux-le-Vicomte There are more statues in Château-Thierry, the town of the poet's birth.
A dispute took place between the Academy and one of its members, , on the subject of the latter's French dictionary, which was decided to be a breach of the Academy's corporate privileges.
On his knee is the manuscript of the fable of , while at his feet a fox is seated on his hat with its paw on a leather-bound volume, looking up at him.