La Fontaine, Jean de
(1621–1695)> FAMOUS POET
La Fontaine, Jean de (July 1621, Château-Thierry; 13 April 1695, Paris), famous poet, studied at Reims and Paris before returning home and eventually marrying in 1647. Later he decided to leave his native town and wife to enter the household of the king’s minister, Fouquet, and to make his way in more aristocratic circles, but his patron’s disgrace induced him to quit Vaux for Limousin. Yet it was not long before he journeyed back to Paris to become an almost permanent house guest of the…