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    Tales and Novels of J. de La Fontaine — Volume 15
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    Tales and Novels of J. de La Fontaine — Volume 15

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    Tales and Novels of J. de La Fontaine — Volume 15
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    Jean de La Fontaine

    Jean de La Fontaine, baptized on July 8, 1621 in the Saint-Crépin-hors-les-murs church in Château-Thierry and died on April 13, 1695 in Paris, is a man of letters of the Great Century and one of the main representatives of French classicism. In addition to his Fables and Contes libertines, which established his fame in the 1660s, we owe him various poems, plays and opera librettos which confirm his ambition as a moralist.

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      Tales and Novels of J. de La Fontaine — Volume 15 - Jean de La Fontaine

      The Project Gutenberg Ebook The Mandrake & The Rhemese, by La Fontaine #15 in our series by Jean de La Fontaine (The Tales and Novels)

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      Title: The Tales and Novels, v15: The Mandrake & The Rhemese

      Author: Jean de La Fontaine

      Release Date: March, 2004 [EBook #5289] [Yes, we are more than one year ahead of schedule] [This file was first posted on June 21, 2002]

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      *** START OF THE PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK TALES AND NOVELS OF FONTAINE, V15 ***

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      [NOTE: There is a short list of bookmarks, or pointers, at the end of the file for those who may wish to sample the author's ideas before making an entire meal of them. D.W.]

      THE TALES AND NOVELS OF J. DE LA FONTAINE

      Volume 15.

                Contains:

                   The Mandrake

                   The Rhemese

      THE MANDRAKE

                FLORENTINE we now design to show;—

                A greater blockhead ne'er appeared below;

                It seems a prudent woman he had wed,

                With beauty that might grace a monarch's bed;

                Young, brisk, good-humoured, with engaging mien;

                None in the town, or round, the like was seen:

                Her praises every

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