Fables of La Fontaine Author:Roberta Sewal, Gustave Dore (Illustrator) Jean de La Fontaine was a French poet born in 1621. It took him twenty years to complete these Fables he is so well known for. He died in 1695 after completing a total of 238 of these famous stories. La Fontaine wrote his fables in poetry in the French language. Here Roberta Sewal has written thirteen La Fontaine Fables in prose, making them mor... more »e modern for today's reader.« less