Jean de La Fontaine

Also known as: La Fontaine / the poet · Role: poet · First appears: Chapter 45

Life events

Jean de La Fontaine writes an explicit poem and sells its first edition for eight hundred livres.(Chapter45)
- “I assure you I did not do it on my own account so much as M. Fouquet’s.”
Fouquet’s friends contribute money toward his debts, raising forty thousand livres.(Chapter45 · 📍 Saint-Mande)
- With: Loret Pelisson Gourville Abbe Fouquet Fouquet
- “As he said this, he placed his offering in the hands of their treasurer; it was then Loret’s turn, who gave a hundred and fifty livres; the others stripped themselves in the same way; and the total sum in the purse amounted to forty thousand livres.”
Jean de La Fontaine gives his eight hundred livres from the poem’s sale as his contribution to Fouquet.(Chapter45 · 📍 Saint-Mande)
- With: Fouquet
- “my eight hundred livres are in this little bag, and I beg to offer them as my contribution.”

with Loret (They disputed about verse-making.) “Presently Loret and La Fontaine would enter from the garden, engaged in a dispute about the art of making verses.”
with Fouquet (La Fontaine contributed money toward Fouquet's financial needs.) “my eight hundred livres are in this little bag, and I beg to offer them as my contribution.”
with Fouquet (Fouquet embraced La Fontaine in gratitude and sympathy.) “he embraced La Fontaine, saying to him, ‘Poor fellow! so you have, on my account, been beaten by your wife and censured by your confessor.’”

Extracted from the original text of Louise de la Vallière. Made with Rho MD.