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The Fables of Jean de La Fontaine are classics of French literature. The subject of each of the Fables is often common property of many ages and races. What gives La Fontaine's Fables their rare distinction is the freshness in narration, the deftness...

Three sisters were tending cows when a king and his company went by. The oldest pointed at the king and said she would marry him or no one; her sisters pointed at ministers and said the same. The king summoned them before him, and then, because they were very beautiful, he married the oldest and his ministers married the youngest....

In the preamble , the narrator sets back to back religious and free-thinkers , as Sosthenes his uncle Mason. Less for the beliefs to undermine the monarchical spirit , the narrator asked why the leaders of the ruling houses of Europe they are Freemasons ?  

Berthe Savignol a été élevée par ses parents dans l’ignorance des choses de la vie. À dix huit ans, la jeune naïve est mariée avec Georges Baron, un beau garçon qui fait des affaires en bourse. Elle quitte donc sa campagne et va s’installer...

Le narrateur visite un asile et se fait raconter par un médecin l’histoire de François, un cocher devenu fou après avoir noyé son chien...

The fox once came to a meadow in which was a flock of fine fat geese...

In the story a donkey, a dog, a cat, and a rooster (or hen), all past their prime years in life and usefulness on their respective farms, were soon to be discarded or mistreated by their masters. One by one they leave their homes and set out together....

A rich widow lives with her daughter and stepdaughter. The widow favored her biological daughter allowing her to become spoiled and idle while her stepdaughter was left to do all the work. Every day the stepdaughter would sit outside the cottage and spin beside the well....

A lazy girl tore out handfuls of flax when she found a knot while spinning. Her industrious servant gathered them and made a gown...

Once upon a time there was a cobbler called Lazarus, who was very fond of honey. One day, as he ate some while he sat at work, the flies collected in such numbers that with one blow he killed forty. Then he went and ordered a sword to be made for him, on which he had written these words:...

There were ance twa widows that lived on a small bit o' ground, which they rented from a farmer. Ane of them had twa sons, and the other had ane; and by-and- by it was time for the wife that had twa sons to send them away to seeke their fortune...

Maurice Connor was the king, and that's no small word, of all the pipers in Munster. He could play jig and reel without end, and Ollistrum's March, and the Eagle's Whistle, and the Hen's Concert, and odd tunes of every sort and kind. But he knew one far more surprising than the rest, which had in it the power to set everything dead or alive dancing...

Once on a time there was a rich merchant, who had an only son called Bobino. Now, as the boy was clever, and had a great desire for knowledge, his father sent him to be under a master, from whom he thought he would learn to speak all sorts of foreign languages...

Once upon a time there lived in the same village two children, one called Sylvain and the other Jocosa, who were both remarkable for beauty and intelligence. It happened that their parents were not on terms of friendship with one another, on account of some old quarrel, which had, however,...