La Fontaine Publishes Fables
1668
The French poet Jean de La Fontaine published the first six books of his verse Fables, adapting Aesop and Bidpai into elegant, witty, and often subversive little allegories. The grasshopper, the fox, and the wolf became characters in the cultural education of every French child for the next three centuries.
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Era
Enlightenment (1651–1800), one of 696 events from that era on Saeculum.