La Fontaine

n. family name; Jean de La Fontaine (1621-1695), French poet, author of "Aesop's Fables"; Henri La Fontaine (1854-1943), Belgian statesman and jurist, the 1913 Nobel peace prize winner; town in Indiana (USA)

Jean de La Fontaine (July 8, 1621 – April 13, 1695) was the most famous French fabulist and probably the most widely read French poet of the 17th century. According to Flaubert, he was the only French poet to understand and master the texture of the French language before Hugo. A set of postage stamps celebrating La Fontaine and the Fables was issued by France in 1995. A film of his life has been released in France in April 2007 (Jean de La Fontaine - le défi starring Laurent Deutsch).
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Noun
1. French writer who collected Aesop's fables and published them (1621-1695)
(synonym) Jean de La Fontaine
(hypernym) writer, author

n. La Fontaine, Jean de La Fontaine, (1621-95), French poet

n. La Fontaine, family name; town in Indiana (USA); Jean de La Fontaine (1621-95), French poet, author of "Fables"