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Jean de La Fontaine, oil painting by François De Troy; in the Bibliothèque Publique et Universitaire, Geneva
Jean de La Fontaine
French poet
Beerbohm, Sir Max
Max Beerbohm
British humorist
Ignacy Krasicki, detail of an oil painting by Per Krafft, 1767; in the National Museum of Warsaw.
Ignacy Krasicki
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Akutagawa Ryūnosuke
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Aesop
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Christian Fürchtegott Gellert
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Ivan Andreyevich Krylov
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Phaedrus
Roman fabulist
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János, Count Mailáth
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Ade, George
George Ade
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