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    Tales and Novels of J. de La Fontaine — Volume 05
    Tales and Novels of J. de La Fontaine — Volume 05
    Tales and Novels of J. de La Fontaine — Volume 05
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    Tales and Novels of J. de La Fontaine — Volume 05

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    Release dateNov 26, 2013
    Tales and Novels of J. de La Fontaine — Volume 05
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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 05 - Jean de La Fontaine

      The Project Gutenberg Ebook Princess Bethrothed to Garba, by Fontaine #5 in our series by Jean de La Fontaine (The Tales and Novels)

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      Title: The Tales and Novels, v5: The Princess Bethrothed to Garba

      Author: Jean de La Fontaine

      Release Date: March, 2004 [EBook #5279] [Yes, we are more than one year ahead of schedule] [This file was first posted on June 14, 2002]

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      *** START OF THE PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK TALES AND NOVELS OF FONTAINE, V5 ***

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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 5.

      THE PRINCESS BETROTHED TO THE KING OF GARBA

                WHAT various ways in which a thing is told

                Some truth abuse, while others fiction hold;

                In stories we invention may admit;

                But diff'rent 'tis with what historick writ;

                Posterity demands that truth should then

                Inspire relation, and direct the pen.

                ALACIEL'S story's of another kind,

                And I've a little altered it, you'll find;

                Faults some may see, and others disbelieve;

                'Tis all the same:—'twill never make me grieve;

                Alaciel's mem'ry, it is very clear,

                Can scarcely by it lose; there's naught to fear.

                Two facts important I have kept in view,

                In which the author fully I pursue;

                The one—no less than eight the belle possessed,

                Before a husband's sight her eyes had blessed;

                The other is, the prince she was to wed

                Ne'er seemed to heed this trespass on

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