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April 13, 1695 (73 years old)
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Cancer
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Jean De la Fontaine
Jean de La Fontaine was a French poet and one of the most widely read French poets of the seventeenth century. He was best known for his Fables, which served as a model for later sophists. Across Europe and many alternative versions in France. as in the French regional languages. After a long period of suspicion by the royal family, he was admitted to the French Academy and his reputation in France has never faded ever since. We found evidence of this in many pictures and statues of the writer, followed by representative images on medals, coins and postage stamps.
BornJuly 8, 1621, Château-Thierry, Champagne, France
DiedApril 13, 1695, Neuilly-sur-Seine, Île-de-France, France
OccupationFabulist, poet
Children1

About Jean De la Fontaine

Poet Jean De la Fontaine was born on July 8, 1621 in France (He dies at the age of 73, on April 13, 1695).

Contes and Fables are the works of a seventeenth-century French poet and fabulist. In 1669, he published Les amours de Psyche et de Cupidon, a fiction.

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Jean De la Fontaine before becoming famous

Jean De la Fontaine was born in the Zodiac sign Cancer (The Crab), and 1621 is the year of the Chinese Zodiac Rooster (雞).

Before discovering his actual calling as a writer, he studied theology and law.

Achievement of Jean De la Fontaine

Jean de La Fontaine - le defi, a 2007 French film starring Lorant Deutsch, told his life story.

Jean De la Fontaine's Family, Spouse, Dating and Relationship

He married Marie Hericart in an arranged marriage. He and Hericart had a son together, but they spent most of their life apart.

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According to author Flaubert, he was the only French writer to thoroughly understand the poetic use of the French language before Novelist Victor Hugo.

Victor Hugo (1802 - 1885) (Novelist)
Victor Hugo (1802 - 1885)

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Jean De la Fontaine Income & Net worth

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