Les Fables de La Fontaine illustrées par Chagall. Antiquité in his eyes

in his eyes

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Les Fables de La Fontaine illustrées par Chagall. Antiquité in his eyes"One of my most tenacious ambitions as a publisher had been to publish La Fontaine's Fables worthily illustrated. I asked the Russian painter Marc Chagall to illustrate the book. This choice of a Russian painter to interpret the most French of our poets was not understood. Yet it was precisely because of the oriental sources of the fabulist that I had thought of an artist whose origins and culture made this prestigious Orient familiar. My hopes were