Short Story #133: La Fontaine's First Fable by Alexandre Dumas
Title: La Fontaine's First Fable
Author: Alexandre Dumas
Summary

Reflection
The story has a bit of The Gift of the Magi to it in the give and take between friends. The title itself wouldn't have made much sense to me a few years ago, but I had read a book of Fontaine's fables in my quest last year to read 365 books. In fact, I found the anthology at a bookstore in Zwolle and read it while on the trip. The idea that this was the reason why Fontaine set forth to write all of his fables is amusing in that context.Short Story #133 out of 365
Rating: 3 (out of 5 stars)
Date Read: 5/8/2014
Source: Great French Short Stories edited by M. E. Speare. The World Publishing Company, 1943. You can find this story and others in this anthology at this resource.
For a full listing of all the short stories in this series, check out the category 365 Short Stories a year.
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