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Excerpt from La Fontaine Et Buffon Voilà bientôt deux siecles que La Fontaine a publié le premier recueil de ses Fables, et voilà bientôt deux siècles qu'il est entré en pleine pos session de la gloire. De son temps mème, et lui vivant, les connaisseurs les plus délicats, les écri vains les plus illustres, madame de Sévigné, Mo lière, La Bruyère, lui ont donné une place à part dans leur estime; et, au lendemain de sa mort. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.