There appears to be absolutely no ground for the vague scandal as to her conduct, which was, for the most part, raised long afterwards by gossip or personal enemies of La Fontaine. She seems to have been both beautiful and intelligent, but the two did not get along well together.

In 1647 his father resigned his rangership in his favor, and arranged a marriage for him with Marie Héricart, a girl of fourteen, who brought him 20,000 livres, and expectations. He was, however, settled in life, or at least might have been so, somewhat early.

He then apparently studied law, and is said to have been admitted as avocat/lawyer. Jean, the eldest child, was educated at the collège (grammar school) of Château-Thierry, and at the end of his school days he entered the Oratory in May 1641, and the seminary of Saint-Magloire in October of the same year but a very short sojourn proved to him that he had mistaken his vocation. Both sides of his family were of the highest provincial middle class though they were not noble, his father was fairly wealthy. His father was Charles de La Fontaine, maître des eaux et forêts – a kind of deputy-ranger – of the Duchy of Château-Thierry his mother was Françoise Pidoux. La Fontaine was born at Château-Thierry in France. Evidence of this is found in the many pictures and statues of the writer, later depictions on medals, coins and postage stamps. 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.Īfter a long period of royal suspicion, he was admitted to the French Academy and his reputation in France has never faded since. Jean de La Fontaine ( UK: / ˌ l æ f ɒ n ˈ t ɛ n, - ˈ t eɪ n/, US: / ˌ l ɑː f ɒ n ˈ t eɪ n, l ə -, ˌ l ɑː f oʊ n ˈ t ɛ n/, French: 8 July 1621 – 13 April 1695) was a French fabulist and one of the most widely read French poets of the 17th century.

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