Marguerite de la Sablière
Marguerite de la Sablière, was a French salonist and polymath, friend and patron of Jean de La Fontaine, was the wife of Antoine Rambouillet, sieur de la Sablière (1624–1679), a Protestant financier and poet entrusted with the administration of the royal estates, her maiden name being Marguerite Hessein.
Marguerite de la Sablière
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 Europe and numerous alternative versions in France, as well as in French regional languages.
Jean de La Fontaine, Fables choises, 1755–59 at Waddesdon Manor
Facsimile of one of the very few manuscripts by Jean de La Fontaine
A scene from La Fontaine's story Le Gascon Puni by Nicolas Lancret, Musée du Louvre
An illustration of " Les Médecins " (Fable V.12) by Gustave Doré, 1866