Les Faux Monnayeurs Texte Intégral

demanded that his approach be in some way personal and new, for otherwise his work was uncreative imitation. Moral reflection Thus La Fontaine was much admired not because he invented new fables, but for reshaping them as sly verse and providing a faux-naïf commentary on the power which gave the decorous regime its shape and character. In his Réflexions, ou Sentences et maximes morales (1665), the Duc de la Rochefoucauld (1613–80) developed the salon aphorism as a defence of true honnêteté and a warning