François Chauveau
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François Chauveau was a French artist, known as a burin engraver, draftsmen and painter.
Engraved portrait by Louis Cossin after Claude Lefèbvre, 1668.
Caranus fonde la monarchie des Macédoniens
Jean de La Fontaine
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Jean de La Fontaine was a French fabulist and one of the most widely read French poets of the 17th century. He is known above all for his Fables, which provided a model for subsequent fabulists across
François Chauveau
…works by Mademoiselle de Scudéry (he engraved the famous Map of Tendre and the frontispiece for her Artamène), Scarron, Molière, Racine and Boileau. La Fontaine summoned him to illustrate the first six books of his fables. He had many students, including Nicolas Guérard, Jean-Baptiste Broebes and Edward Davies…
Jean de La Fontaine, Fables choisies, 1755–59 at Waddesdon Manor
Facsimile of one of the very few manuscripts by Jean de La Fontaine
Grave of Jean de La Fontaine, Père Lachaise Cemetery, Paris
An illustration of "Les Médecins" (Fable V.12) by Gustave Doré, 1866