A program about the life and work of the great—and enigmatic—fabulist whose renditions of Aesop in verse hold up animals as a mirror for man. Splendidly illustrated 18th-century books containing the fables as well as other stories by La Fontaine provide the visuals for some of La Fontaine’s most charming and trenchant fables—light-handedly moral, elegantly voiced, and a sourcebook of what have become some of France’s most frequently-used aphorisms. (26 minutes)

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