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La Fontaine's Fables in the Orient.
THE FOUNTAIN Jean.

La Fontaine's Fables in the Orient.

Orients Editions
€39,00 €0,00
N° d'inventaire 26104
Format 16 x 24.5
Détails 383 p., color illustrations, publisher's hardcover with dust jacket.
Publication 2022
Etat Nine
ISBN 9791093315348
It is not always known that Jean de la Fontaine also owes part of his inspiration to Ibn al-Muqaffa', an 8th-century Iranian, and his animal fables of Kalila and Dimna, themselves taken from the Indian book of Panchatantra. The East used fables to make evident this human morality that La Fontaine brought to its pinnacle. In the 19th century, the French diplomat Félix Sébastien Feuillet de Conches dreamed up a crazy project: he sent his correspondents collections of La Fontaine's Fables to have them illustrated by local artists. He received paintings typical of Egypt, Persia, Abyssinia, China, India, Japan... A treasure trove of illustrations preserved at the Jean de la Fontaine Museum in Château-Thierry and which had never been published or revealed to the general public.
It is not always known that Jean de la Fontaine also owes part of his inspiration to Ibn al-Muqaffa', an 8th-century Iranian, and his animal fables of Kalila and Dimna, themselves taken from the Indian book of Panchatantra. The East used fables to make evident this human morality that La Fontaine brought to its pinnacle. In the 19th century, the French diplomat Félix Sébastien Feuillet de Conches dreamed up a crazy project: he sent his correspondents collections of La Fontaine's Fables to have them illustrated by local artists. He received paintings typical of Egypt, Persia, Abyssinia, China, India, Japan... A treasure trove of illustrations preserved at the Jean de la Fontaine Museum in Château-Thierry and which had never been published or revealed to the general public.