On the occasion of the 400th anniversary of the birth of Jean de La Fontaine (1621-1695), the castle of Vaux-le-Vicomte, located in the town of Maincy, in the department of Seine-et-Marne, in the Ile region -de-France, wanted to revive some of his fables …
The story of the poet and fabulist (The Fox and the Crow, The bunny and the turtle, The Frog and the Ox… ) is intimately linked to this castle and to its wealthy owner, Nicolas Fouquet (1615-1680), attorney general at the parliament of Paris, superintendent of finance at the time of Mazarin …
The return of the fabulist
It is thanks to this promoter of the arts, soon dismissed, arrested and sentenced to life imprisonment on the order of Louis XIV that the author became famous at the end of the 17th century. Jean de La Fontaine decided to pay a little visit to Vaux-le-Vicomte to which he invited the magazine “8:30 p.m. in holidays“(Twitter, # 20h30LD) …
A fable by Maïa Boyé, Vincent Barral and Mathilde Rougeron.
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