astrologer who fell into a well
astrology, (VIII, 16), (XI, 4)
Atropos, Clotho, and Lachesis, (V, 6), (VII, 13), (XI, 4), (XII, 25), (XII, 28)
Augsbourg, League of, (XII, 10)
Babrius
Bacchus, (XII, 28)
banquet of the gods, (XII, 12)
Barillon, M., (VIII, 4)
Barillon, Paul de, (VIII, 4)
bat: and the bush and the duck; and the two weasels
Baucis and Philemon
bear: and the garden-lover; and the two companions
beggar’s sack
Belisarius, (X, 15)
Bellerophon and Pegasus, (VIII, 10)
Bellona, (XII, 10)
Belphegor, (XII, 27)
Bertrand, (IX, 3), (XII, 3)
Bias of Priene, (VIII, 2)
bird-catcher and the hawk and the lark
bird wounded by an arrow
bitch and her friend
Boreas and Phoebus, (VI, 3)
Bouillon, chevalier de, (V, 1)
Bourbon, François-Louis de, (XII, 12), (XII, 12)
Bourgogne, Louis, duc de, (XII, 1), (XII, 5); fable written by, (XII, 9)
Brahman and the maiden
breeding
Brienne, comte de, (V, 1)
Bueil, Honoré, marquis de Racan de, (III, 1)
bulls and a frog
bush and the bat and the duck
bust and the fox
Butler, Samuel: “The Elephant in the Moon,” (VII, 17)
cabbage planter turned pope, (VII, 11)
Caesar and Laridon
Calliope, (II, 1)
camel and the floating sticks
candle
capon and the falcon
Captain Belisarius
cassock, (VI, 19)
Castor and Pollux, (I, 14)
cat(s): and the cockerel and the little mouse; and dogs; and the eagle and the wild sow; and the fox; metamorphosed into a woman; and mice; and the monkey; and the mouse; and the old rat; and the rat; and the two sparrows; and the weasel and the little rabbit, (VII, 15); and the young mouse
Cephalus and Procris
Cerberus, (III, 18)
ceremonies of Louis XIV, (VII, 11), (VIII, 3)
Ceres, (IV, 21), (VIII, 4), (IX, 11), (X, 1), (XII, 25), (XII, 28)
“Cervus et Boves” (Phaedrus), (IV, 21)
charlatan
Charles II, Prince, (XII, 23)
Chaucer, Geoffrey
child and the schoolmaster
Chilo of Sparta, (VIII, 2)
Chouart, Jean, (VII, 10)
Circe, (XII, 1)
city rat and the country rat
Cleobulos of Lindos, (VIII, 2)
Clio, (XII, 25)
clocksmith vs. locksmith, (V, 16)
Cloris and Telamon
Clotho, Lachesis, and Atropos, (V, 6), (VII, 13), (XI, 4), (XII, 25), (XII, 28)
coach and the fly, (VII, 8)
cobbler and the financier
cock(s); and the fox; and the partridge; and the pearl
cockerel and the cat and the little mouse
cogito, (IX, 20)
command performance, (XII, 5)
companions: and the bear; of Ulysses
Constantinople, widow of, (XII, 23)
contes vs. fables, (III, 7), (XII, 27)
Conti, Prince de
cook and the swan
cormorant and the fishes
corpse and the curé
Corydon and Tircis, (IV, 2)
country rat and the city rat
court of the lion
Cowper, William
cows and the stag
crayfish and her daughter
cricket and the ant
crow: and the fox; and the gazelle, the tortoise, and the rat; who wanted to imitate the eagle
Cupid
curé and the corpse
currier vs. tanner, (VI, 11)
Cyclops Polyphemus, (II, 16), (XII, 4)
cynicism, (XII, 17)
dame fortune and the child
Damon, (VI)
damsel and the heron
Dandin, Perrin, (IX, 9)
Danube peasant, (XI, 7)
Daphnis and Alcimadura
daughter of Apollo, (XII, 1)
daughters of Mineas
Dauphin of France
death: and the dying man; and the woodsman; and the wretched man
deer and the vine
Democritus, (VII, 17), (VIII, 26)
Demosthenes, (VIII, 4), (VIII, 4)
Descartes, René, (IX, 20)
Deschamps, Eustache, (II, 2)
Destiny
devil
Dido and Aeneas, (XII, 24)
difficult tastes
Dindonneau, (V, 20)
Diogenes, (IV, 20)
Dionysos, (XII, 28)
Discord, (VI, 20)
discourse; for Madame de la Sablière
doctors
dog(s): and the ass; and cats; and the dead ass; who carries his master’s dinner around his neck; who dropped his prey for its reflection; who had his ears cut short
dolphin: and the ape; who saved Arion, (IV, 7)
dove: and the ant; as the sacred bird of Venus, (VII, 7)
dragon with many heads and the dragon with many tails, (I, 12)
dream of the man from Mongol land
drowned wife
drunkard and his wife
Du Bellay, Joachim: Les Regrets, (IX, 1)
duck(s): and the bat and the bush; and the turtle
Duke, Francis
dung beetle and the eagle
the Dutch vs. Louis XIV, (VII, 17), (appendix, 1), (appendix, 2)
dying man and death
eagle: and the dung beetle; imitated by the crow; and the magpie; and the owl, (V, 18); and the wild sow and the cat
ears of the hare
earthen pot and the iron pot
Eastern inspiration, (VII, 3)
egg and the rats and the fox
elephant: and Jupiter’s ape; and the rat; and rhinoceros’s fight
“The Elephant in the Moon” (Butler), (VII, 17)
eloquencers, (VI, 19)
Elysian Fields, (XI, 4)
Emerson, Ralph Waldo
Empedocles, (IX, 12)
English fox
environmentalism, (XII, 16)
Ephesus’s matron, (XII, 26)
Epicurus, (VII, 17)
epilogue, (XI)
Erebus, (XII, 24)
evolution of fables
ewes and the wolf
eye of the master
fables: vs. contes, (III, 7), (XII, 27); defined; evolution of; power of; spread of; types of
Fagotin, (VII, 6)
faithless trustee
falcon and the capon
family tree of the mule
farmer: and the hound and the fox; Jupiter; and the lark and her little ones
fascination, (XII, 18)
Fates, (V, 6), (VII, 13), (XI, 4), (XII, 25), (XII, 28); mother of, (II, 3)
fear, (X, 13)
file and the snake, (V, 16)
financier and the cobbler
Finn, Julius, (VII, 11)
fish(es): and the cormorant; and the fisherman; and the joker; and the shepherd who plays the flute
fisherman and the little fish
flea and the man
floating sticks and the camel
flock and the shepherd
Flora, (VIII, 10), (IX, 5), (IX, 20), (XI, 2)
flowers, goddess of, (IX, 5), (IX, 20), (XI, 2)
fly/flies: and the ant, (IV, 3), (IV, 3); and the coach, (VII, 8); and the fox and the hedgehog
folly and love
fool and the wise man
forest and the woodsman
fortune: and the child; and the man who runs after her; and the man who waits for her in his bed; and men’s ingratitude/injustice
fortune-tellers, (VII, 14)
/> fowl cohort, (XII, 18)
fowler and the kite and the king
fox: and the ape and the animals; and the bust; and the cat; and the cock; and the crow; from England; and the farmer and the hound; and the flies and the hedgehog; and the goat, (III, 5); and the grapes; and the leopard; and the lion and the wolf; and the rats and the egg; and the sick lion; and the stork; who lost his tail; and the wolf and the horse; against the wolf before the ape; and the young turkey cocks
friends
frog(s): and the bulls; as a fish, (IV, 11); and the hare, (II, 14); and the rat; and the sun; who asked for a king; who would grow as big as the ox
funeral of the lioness
Furies, (III, 7), (VIII, 20)
Gabrias, (VI, 1–2)
Galatea, (XII, 4)
Galatea’s statue, (IX, 6)
Ganymede, (II, 8)
gardener and his lord, (IV, 4)
garden goddesses, (VIII, 10)
garden-lover and the bear
garden owner and the schoolboy and the pedant
Gargantua and Picrochole, (VII, 9)
Gascons, (III, 11), (VIII, 10)
Gay, John
gazelle and the crow, the tortoise, and the rat
Gelli, G. B.
Gemini, (I, 14)
gender of words, (XII, 1)
Georgics (Virgil), (XII, 20)
Gille, (IX, 3), (XII, 3)
Girard, Antoine, (VIII, 12)
gnat and the lion
goat(s); and the fox, (III, 5); and the hog and the sheep
goddess(es): of agriculture, (IV, 21), (VIII, 4), (IX, 11), (X, 1), (XII, 25), (XII, 28); of flowers, (IX, 5), (IX, 20), (XI, 2); of garden, (VIII, 10); of the law, (II, 3); of war, (XII, 10)
god of medicine, (VIII, 16)
God’s voice, (VIII, 26)
gods who wished to instruct a son of Jupiter
gout and the spider
Grand Vizier Fox and Sultan Leopard
grapes and the fox
grasshopper and the ant
Grim Reaper, (VI, 19)
Guillot the liar, (III, 3)
hare: and the frogs, (II, 14); and his ears; and the partridge, (V, 17); vs. rabbit, (V, 19); and the tortoise
Harlequin, (XII, 18)
Harvey, Madame, (XII, 23)
Hawthorne, Nathaniel
head and tail of the snake
Hecuba, (X, 12)
hedgehog, (XII, 13); and the fox and the flies
heifer, goat, and lamb consort with the lion
help from Jupiter, (XII, 21)
hen with the golden eggs, (V, 13)
Heraclitus, (VII, 17)
Hercules, (VI, 18)
Héricart, Marie, (VII, 2)
hermit, the arbiter, and the hospitaller
heron and the damsel
Hesiod
Hessein, Marguerite, (IX, 20), (IX, 20); daughter of, (XII, 24)
Historia naturalis (Pliny), (IV, 7)
history, muse of, (XII, 25)
hog and the goat and the sheep
holy relics carried by the ass
Homer; The Iliad, (XI, 3)
honest man, (IV, 20)
honeybees and the hornets
Horace; Satire, (VII, 4)
hornets and the honeybees
horoscope
horse: and the ass; and the fox and the wolf; who sought revenge on the stag; and the wolf
hospitaller, the arbiter, and the hermit
hound: and the farmer and the fox; and the wolf
human woe, (XII, 25)
humor, (XII, 28)
hunter and the lion
husband and his wife and the thief
Hydra, (I, 12), (VIII, 4), (XI, 2)
Hymen, son of Apollo, (XII, 28)
idol made of wood
The Iliad (Homer), (XI, 3)
illustrations
improvisation, (VIII, 25)
infidel and the oracle
ingratitude/injustice of men toward fortune
intelligence of animals, (IX, 20)
Io, turned into a heifer, (XI, 6)
Iris, (IX, 20)
iron pot and the earthen pot
irony, (XII, 21)
Jansenists, (VII, 3)
Japhet, son of, (XII, 25)
jay dressed in the peacock’s feathers
Jeanne and Nicolas, (III, 1)
Je chante les héros dont Esope est le père (La Fontaine)
joker and the fish
jug and the milkmaid
Jupiter: the ape and the elephant; and the beggar’s sack; and the farmer; help of, (XII, 21); and his statue’s sculptor; and the thunderbolts; and the traveler
Jupiter’s son and the gods who wished to instruct him
justice in Turkey, (I, 21)
Justinian I, Emperor, (X, 15)
king: and the kite and the fowler; and the shepherd
king lion’s court
kite: and the king and the fowler; and the nightingale
knowledge’s value
Lachesis, Clotho, and Atropos, (V, 6), (VII, 13), (XI, 4), (XII, 25), (XII, 28)
La Fontaine, Jean de: Adonis; aging of, (XII, 1); as a child, (XII, 16); children of, (XI, 3); “Discourse [for Madame de la Sablière],” xxix; errors by, (VII, 6); Je chante les héros dont Esope est le père; marriages of, (VII, 2), (XI, 3); Psyché, (VI); self-referential tales, (XI, 8); style of, (I, 20), (VI, 1–2), (VIII, 11), (VIII, 25), (XI, 9)
lamb and the wolf
Lambert, Michel, (XI, 5)
La Mésangère, de, (XII, 24)
Laridon and Caesar
lark and her little ones and the farmer
La Rochefoucauld, duc de, (I, 11), (X, 14)
La Sablère, Antoine de: daughter of, (XII, 24); wife of, (IX, 20), (IX, 20)
League of Augsbourg, (XII, 10)
league of the rats
leopard: and the ape; and the fox; and the lion
limbs and the stomach
lion: and the ape and the two asses; and the ass go hunting; brought down by a man; consorts with the heifer, goat, and lamb; court of; and the fox; and the gnat; and the hunter; and the leopard; in love; and the rat; and the shepherd; who grew old; who went to war, (V, 19); and the wolf and the fox
lioness: funeral of; and the shebear
literary allusions, (I, 21)
little birds and the swallow
little fish and the fisherman
little mouse and the cockerel and the cat
little rabbit and the cat and the weasel, (VII, 15)
Littré, (IX, 16)
locksmith vs. clocksmith, (V, 16)
Louis XIV: ceremonies of, (VII, 11), (VIII, 3); vs. the Dutch, (VII, 17), (appendix, 1), (appendix, 2)
love and folly
lyric poetry, muse of, (II, 1)
madman who sells wisdom
Maecenas, (I, 15–16)
magpie and the eagle
maiden metamorphosed from a mouse
Maine, duc du
maître Aliboron, (I, 13)
Malherbe, François de, (I, 14), (III, 1)
Mancini, Hortense, duchesse de Mazarin, (XII, 23)
man/men: and the ass; from Corycia, (XII, 20); and the flea; and the fool; and his image; and his sons; from the Mogol land’s dream; and the old man; and the snake; and the three young men; and the treasure; who is honest, (IV, 20); who married a shrew; who runs after fortune; who waits for fortune in his bed; with the wooden idol
Marcus Aurelius, emperor of Rome, (XI, 7)
Martin, the peasant miller, (V, 21)
master(s): and the ass; eye of
mastiff bitch and her friend
matrimony
matron of Ephesus, (XII, 26)
Maucroix, François de, (III, 1)
medicine, god of, (VIII, 16)
Melpomene, (I, 14)
Menenius Agrippa, (III, 2)
merchant: and the aristocrat, the shepherd, and the prince; and the pasha, (VIII, 18)
Mercury and
the woodsman
Meridarpax and Psicarpax, (IV, 6)
Merlin, (IV, 11)
Metamorphoses (Ovid), (III, 15)
metempsychosis, (XII, 12)
mice. See mouse/mice
middle-aged man and his two mistresses
milkmaid and the milk jug
Mineas’s daughters
Minerva, (XII, 28); and Arachne, (X, 6); and owl emblem, (V, 18)
miser: and the ape; who lost his treasure
Mnemosyne, (IX, 1)
moderation
Mogol land man’s dream
Molière: Tartuffe, (IX, 14)
monetary matters, (X, 4)
money-burier and his friend
monkey and the cat
Monomotapa, Africa, (VIII, 11)
Montespan, marquise de, (VII)
moon
moral tales, (I, 3), (II, 14), (II, 11–12), (III, 5), (VI, 18), (VIII, 9)
Morpheus, (VIII, 11)
mother: and child and the wolf; of the Fates, (II, 3)
mountain in labor
Mount Hymettus, (IX, 12)
Mount Parnassus, (I, 14)
mouse/mice: and the cat; and cats; and the cockeral and the cat; metamorphosed into a maiden; and the old cat; and the screech owl
mule(s); who boasted of his family tree
muse: of history, (XII, 25); of lyric poetry, (II, 1); of tragedy, (I, 14)
Muses, (IX, 1)
mythology, (VI, 18)
Nibblelard, (II, 2)
Nicolas and Jeanne, (III, 1)
nightingale: and the kite; and the swallow, (III, 15)
Nijmegen, Treaties of, (XI)
Nivelle, Jean de (the “dog”), (VIII, 21)
Normans, (III, 11), (VII, 6), (VIII, 21)
north wind and the sun
nosebleed, (X, 13)
“The Nun’s Priest’s Tale” (Chaucer)
oak and the reed
occultism, (VII, 14)
Odysseus
old cat and the young mouse
old man: and the ass; from Corycia, (XII, 20); and his sons; and the three young men
old rat and the cat
old woman and the two servants
Olympe, (VII)
oracle and the infidel
Ovid; Metamorphoses, (III, 15)
owl: and the eagle, (V, 18); and the mice
ox and the frog who would grow as big
oyster: and the adversaries; and the rat
“Pairing Time Anticipated” (Cowper)
Pallas, (XII, 28)
Panurge’s sheep, (II, 10)
Parnassus, (I, 14)
Parrish, Maxfield
partridge: and the cocks; and the hare, (V, 17)
pasha and the merchant, (VIII, 18)
passerby and the satyr
passion as a poison, (XII, 1)
Pathelin, Pierre, (IX, 14)
Patterson, Annabel
Peace of the Pyrenees, (XII, 4)
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