SOURCE: "Pleasures and Pains, Lessons and Revelations of Travel in La Fontaine," in Dalhousie French Studies, Vol. 36, Fall 1996, pp. 23-37.
In the essay that follows, Sweetser argues that La Fontaine used metaphors of travel in several of his Fables to reflect on the direction of his own life and to counsel the future king of France on the need for and direction of social reforms.
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