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Jean de La Fontaine
Jean de La Fontaine, oil painting by François De Troy; in the Bibliothèque Publique et Universitaire, Geneva
Jean de La Fontaine was born into a bourgeois family in the Champagne region of France. His father held the position of inspector of forests and waterways, an office that La Fontaine later inherited and held from 1652 to 1671.1