Les Fables de La Fontaine illustrées par Chagall. Océanie that of bitter bile and

that of bitter bile and demonic sulfur (a sign of lies

Faced with such beauty and spirituality

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doctrinal conference held before the emperor

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Les Fables de La Fontaine illustrées par Chagall. Océanie that of bitter bile and"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