The Fables Of Jean De La Fontaine
(Jean de la Fontaine)
<<Might is always right>>. Political slogan? A general's
speech to his troops before a war? Words of a boss to his workers? Not
at all, it is simply the introduction of Jean de La Fontaine's Wolf and
the lamb. Shouting of reality, no? And yet these famous fables were
written 450 years ago...Imagine, the age of Louis XIV, the sun king,
the court record, Versailles. Imagine, you live in this epoch, you are
a talented writer, but because of bad luck, the king doesn't like you.
Oh oh-impossible in this time to shout>, impossible to protest
without the risk of finding oneself at the bottom of a cell. So what to
do, look for protection and then search the means of passing on these
ideas by disguising them. That is what Jean de La Fontaine had to do,
he found protection with Fouquet, then with the custom duchess of
Orleans, with Mr. and Mrs. d'Hervart. Inspired by Aesop, he had begun
to write poetic fables, then, little by little they became satirical
and political and taking animals as characters, it was with the shelter
of the mad royals. He wrote them between 1668 and 1694 and grouped them
in no less than twelve books. It is important to re-read the fables of
de la Fontaine in adulthood, they contain treasures just like the
ground of a ploughman and his children. You will discover in it many
more things than when you had read them as a child. Look well around
you, all the characters imagined by la Fontaine still exist- don?t you
know in your professional relations a frog who wants to be as fat as
the ox? Who are you? The corbel or the fox? Or one at one time, the
other another? Come on, acknowledge it, I am sure that one day you had
lost your cheese! And, in the morning, when you are agitated in all its
senses to not arrive late at the job, haven?t you ever said >. And
in the summer, haven?t you played the cicada? Re-immerse yourself in
the fables, and come to tell me what you found there, I am sure that we
will fill up entire pages.
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