La Fontaine

Also known as: the Fabler · Family: Epicureans · Role: poet · First appears: Chapter 4

Life events

Aramis reveals that Fouquet’s Epicurean poets will be uniformed and enrolled in a regiment for the king.(Chapter4 · 📍 Saint-Mande)
- With: Aramis Loret Pelisson Moliere Louis XIV Fouquet
- “Well, we are going to put our poets in uniform, and enroll them in a regiment for the king.”
Aramis distributes Fouquet’s invitations to the assembled writers.(Chapter6 · 📍 Saint-Mande)
- With: Aramis Fouquet Moliere Loret Pelisson
- “Aramis distributed the notes of invitation, and thanked them in the name of M. Fouquet.”
Fouquet agrees to depart for Nantes while remaining prepared to escape.(Chapter35 · 📍 Nantes)
- With: Fouquet Pelisson Madame Fouquet Madame Belliere
- “I will do so,” replied Fouquet.”

with Fouquet (La Fontaine is a member of Fouquet's Epicurean poetical society.) “Is it not a kind of poetical society, of which La Fontaine, Loret, Pelisson, and Moliere are members, and which holds its sittings at Saint-Mande?”

friends with Pelisson (The chapter also depicts their comic disagreement.) “Ah, but, my good friend, one cannot talk of wheel-ruts when celebrating the delights of Vaux,” said Loret.”
with Pelisson (Moliere states that Pelisson insulted La Fontaine.) “Pelisson has insulted you.”
with Moliere (Moliere gives La Fontaine practical advice about his verses.) “Write them first and burn them afterwards.”
friends with Moliere (The address occurs in a conversation involving Moliere and La Fontaine; the speaker attribution in the surrounding dialogue identifies the exchange.) “Ah, but, my good friend, one cannot talk of wheel-ruts when celebrating the delights of Vaux,” said Loret.”

with Pelisson (Pelisson created a literary conversation involving La Fontaine.) “the residence of that illustrious nymph of Vaux, whom Pelisson made converse with La Fontaine”

friends with Fouquet “Is it likely I shall ever be poor, with such friends as Pelisson, as La Fontaine, as Moliere?”
with Fouquet (Fouquet attributes the creation and enduring ownership of Vaux to La Fontaine.) “Vaux belongs to Lebrun, to Lenotre, to Pelisson, to Levau, to La Fontaine, to Moliere”

Extracted from the original text of The Man in the Iron Mask. Made with Rho MD.