The Monkey and the Cat
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The Monkey and the Cat is best known as a fable adapted by Jean de La Fontaine under the title Le Singe et le Chat that appeared in the second collection of his Fables in 1679. It is the source of pop
J.J. Grandville's illustration from the 1855 edition of La Fontaine's Fables
An adaptation of Gheeraert's figure illustrating an engraving of the Schloss Johannisberg vineyards.
A satirical French view of military glory from Napoleonic times
Joannes Sambucus, 1567: the version with a dog
Labyrinth of Versailles
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The labyrinth of Versailles was a hedge maze in the Gardens of Versailles with groups of fountains and sculptures depicting Aesop's Fables. André Le Nôtre initially planned a maze of unadorned paths i
The Monkey and the Cat
…in India' as witnessed by him. One of the channels through which the fable was taken to be Aesop's was its inclusion among the hydraulic statues in the labyrinth of Versailles in 1669. These were accompanied by quatrains by Isaac de Benserade, which subsequently appeared in Les fables d'Ésope, mises en françois, avec le sens…
Jean Cotelle the younger's painting of the entrance to the Labyrinth of Versailles; Cupid ('Love') on the left, Aesop on the right.
John Bowles (author) guidebook
Gardens and palace of Versailles in 1746 showing the labyrinth, by the abbot Delagrive
From Jacques Bailly's Le Labyrinthe de Versailles. Shows entrance (A), statues of Aesop (B) and Cupid (C).