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Writer Soundtrack La cicala e la formica But he stayed there only for 18 months because he didn't like it.
Then he studied law and became a lawyer at the Parliament of Paris in They later had a son, Charles, in Then he decided to become a writer and first published l'Eunuque, in , translated from Terentius's old version, then a heroic poem, Adonis, in , inspired by Ovid.
The latter work allowed him to have the admiration and protection of Nicolas Fouquet. But in , while La Fontaine was writing Le Songe de Vaux, Fouquet was disgraced, arrested and put in jail by the king. Thus he left Paris for the Limousin.
Nevertheless during the last two years of his life he gave up with social life, was obliged to deny some of his work and devoted himself to meditation. That's how he died in Nowadays some people still say that Jean de la Fontaine copied everything he wrote especially the fables of Aesop and Phaedrus but others defend him by saying that he generally improved them and he also made us know the ancient authors he liked and who would have been probably forgotten without him.
