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In Jean de La Fontaine's Nouveaux Contes ( 1674 ), a demon is repulsed by the sight of a woman lifting her skirt.
While many of his earlier fables were loosely based on Aesop's and La Fontaine's, later fables were original work, often satirizing the incompetent bureaucracy that was stifling social progress in his time.
It has been observed that in general Krylov tends to add more detail in contrast with La Fontaine's leaner versions, and that where La Fontaine is an urbane moralist Krylov is satiric.
Rameau's comic opera Les Paladins ( 1760 ) is based on a story in canto 18 of Orlando ( though Rameau's librettist derived the plot indirectly via La Fontaine's Contes ).
* La Fontaine's Fables, published in French during the later 17th century, were inspired by the brevity and simplicity of Aesop's.
In most cases, but not all, these were dependent on La Fontaine's versions.
A version of La Fontaine's fables in the dialect of Martinique was made by François-Achille Marbot ( 1817 66 ) in Les Bambous, Fables de la Fontaine travesties en patois ( 1846 ).
Having become a schoolmaster, he adapted some of La Fontaine's fables into the local dialect in Fables créoles dédiées aux dames de l ’ île Bourbon ( Creole fables for island women ).
In France the fable tradition had already been renewed in the 17th century by La Fontaine's influential reinterpretations of Aesop and others.
In France too, well-known illustrations of La Fontaine's fables were often used on china.
The success of La Fontaine's fables in France started a European fashion for creating plays around them.
These featured a cartoon in which the characters appeared as an assembly of animated geometric shapes, accompanied by Pierre Perret's slang versions of La Fontaine's original poem.
While musical settings of La Fontaine's Fables began appearing in France within a few decades of their publication, it was not until the 19th century that composers began to take their inspiration directly from Aesop.
Paul Otlet and Henri La Fontaine's Mundaneum, a massively cross-referenced card index system established in 1910.
In Jean de La Fontaine's Nouveaux Contes ( 1674 ), a demon is repulsed by the sight of a woman lifting her skirt.
Andersen reproduces a plate from La Fontaine's Nouveaux Contes ( 1674 ) where a demon is repulsed by the sight of a woman lifting her skirt.
The original book from 1912 was a fable with a political message, analogously to Jean de La Fontaine's or Ivan Krylov's work.
Some of these fragments were associated with La Fontaine's retelling of Aesop's fable of the ant and the grasshopper and Hans Christian Andersen's The Little Mermaid.
The version of the story in La Fontaine's Fables ( VI. 10 ), while more long-winded, differs hardly at all from the Aesop version.
A 19th-century illustration of Jean de La Fontaine | La Fontaine's Fables by Jean Ignace Isidore Gérard | Jean Grandville
Auguste Delierre makes the judge a monkey in the 1883 edition of La Fontaine's fables that he illustrated.
* Dahomey, on a set commemorating the third centenary of La Fontaine's death in which it figures on the 10 franc stamp.

La and model
* A scale model of Casa Milà ( La Pedrera ) is exhibited at the Catalunya en Miniatura park.
Monet's Camille or The Woman in the Green Dress ( La femme à la robe verte ), painted in 1866, brought him recognition and was one of many works featuring his future wife, Camille Doncieux ; she was the model for the figures in Women in the Garden of the following year, as well as for On the Bank of the Seine, Bennecourt, 1868, pictured here.
Honoré de Balzac introduced the perfectly worldly and unmoved Henri de Marsay in La fille aux yeux d ' or ( 1835 ), a part of La Comédie Humaine, who fulfills at first the model of a perfect dandy, until an obsessive love-pursuit unravels him in passionate and murderous jealousy.
The use of objects as other than what they seem is typified in his painting, The Treachery of Images ( La trahison des images ), which shows a pipe that looks as though it is a model for a tobacco store advertisement.
Rossini's opera William Tell ( 1829 ) marked the onset of the Romantic Opera, using the central national myth unifying Switzerland ; and in Brussels, a riot ( August 1830 ) after an opera that set a doomed romance against a background of foreign oppression ( Auber's La Muette de Portici ) sparked the Belgian Revolution of 1830-1831, the first successful revolution in the model of Romantic nationalism.
Jacobs suggests that Berlioz's La damnation de Faust, a great favourite in Sullivan's formative years, may have been the model for Sullivan's trademark contrapuntal mingling of the rapid prattle of the women's chorus in Act I (" How beautifully blue the sky ") in 2 / 4 time with the lovers ' duet in waltz time.
During his marriage to La Russa he met actress / model Kelly LeBrock, with whom he began a relationship and who eventually became pregnant with his child.
While filming La Mary, he met famous Argentina actress and model Susana Giménez.
In a related event, model Angelica Marie Cecora also announced she would sue De La Hoya after an alleged drug-fueled romp at the Ritz-Carlton in Midtown, on March 15, 2011, where she says he went wild with drugs, booze, sex toys and cross-dressing antics.
From 1568, La Rochelle became a centre for the Huguenots, and the city declared itself an independent Reformed Republic on the model of Geneva.
La Toya Yvonne Jackson ( born May 29, 1956 ) is an American singer-songwriter, musician, author, television personality, actress, businesswoman, philanthropist, activist and former model.
The newly established De La Salle University College of Law will likewise offer the J. D., although it will offer the program using a trimestral calendar, unlike the model curriculum that uses a semestral calendar.
" La Fornarina " by Raphael, shows delicate modelling chiaroscuro in the body of the model, for example in the shoulder, breast, and arm on the right.
Having completed her studies, Florence La Badie was offered work as a fashion model in New York City.
In the 1970s and early 1980s this practice was imitated by the satirical bi-monthly newspaper Monos y Monadas, which featured an image of a topless model on its own next-to-last page, called " La Calata " ( lit.
Portrait of Jo ( La belle Irlandaise ), 1865-1866, Metropolitan Museum of Art, a painting of Joanna Hiffernan, the probable model for L ' Origine du monde and for Sleep.
At the same time he continued to express elements of his longstanding germanophobia by arguing in La Seule France that Frenchmen must not be drawn to the German model and by hosting anti-German conferences and he opposed both the " dissidents " in London and the collaborators in Paris and Vichy ( such as Lucien Rebatet, Robert Brasillach, Pierre Laval, or Marcel Déat ).
The fables, for which Gellert took La Fontaine as his model, are simple and didactic.
* La Haye Sainte as model
De La Hoya at the time, asked that Corretjer be the model on his next music video.
Dudley won the " Best Original Musical or Comedy Score " Oscar for her music ; The Gathering ( 2002 ) a Anthony Horowitz thriller directed by Brian Gilbert and starring Christina Ricci ; The Grotesque ( 1997 ) released in the US as Gentlemen Don't Eat Poets a British film starring Alan Bates, Theresa Russell and Sting ; Hollow Reed ( 1996 ) a drama directed by Angela Pope and set in Bath ; Knight Moves ( 1992 ) American thriller directed by Carl Schenkel and starring Christopher Lambert ; Lucky Break ( 2001 ) a British feelgood comedy starring James Nesbitt and based around a prison escape ; The Miracle Maker ( 2000 ) an animated feature film made for TV by BBC Wales with Russian model makers ; Monkeybone ( 2001 ) an American film combining live-action and stop-motion animation starring Brendan Fraser and Bridget Fonda ; Perfect Creature ( 2007 ) a New Zealand made horror / thriller film starring Leo Gregory ; Pushing Tin ( 1999 ) a comedy-drama film directed by Mike Newell based around air traffic controllers in New York ; The Pope Must Die ( 1991 ) a comedy film starring Robbie Coltrane the score was co-written with Jeff Beck ; Silence Like Glass ( Zwei Frauen ) ( 1989 ) German made but set in a cancer ward at a hospital in America ; Tristan & Isolde ( 2006 ) a Ridley Scott romantic drama based on the medieval romantic legend of Tristan and Iseult and starring James Franco and Sophia Myles ; The Walker ( 2007 ) a drama written and directed by Paul Schrader set in Washington, D. C .; Her TV music includes scores for all episodes of Jeeves and Wooster with Stephen Fry and Hugh Laurie ; Lynda La Plante's Above Suspicion ; Kavanagh QC with John Thaw and The Tenth Kingdom an American epic fantasy TV miniseries written by Simon Moore.
* Characters in a film or a television series who mention and / or refer to the actors or actresses that portray themselves ( e. g. Beatrice " Betty " Pengson from I Love Betty La Fea ; Bea Alonzo, who played the role of the protagonist, also played herself as an Ecomoda model ; coincidentally in the show, Betty wants to meet Bea Alonzo in person, an act of self-reference.
La Quijotita in particular is an exercise in moralizing, populated with flat characters whose function is to model particular foibles or virtues.

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