Jean de La Fontaine

Japanese: ラ･フォンテーヌ（英語表記）Jean de La Fontaine

1621‐95
French poet. Widely known for his allegorical poems. Born as the eldest son of a forest and river superintendent in Château-Thierry, Champagne, he was educated in his hometown and Paris, and entered the Oratorio seminary in Paris but dropped out after one year. He then studied law in Paris, while also discussing literature with his close friends from his hometown, Maucloix and Furtier, and experimenting with poetry. After marrying, he took over his father's civil service, but was drawn to literature and commuted back and forth between Paris and his hometown. In 1854, he published his first comedy, The Eunuch. Through an acquaintance, he became the personal poet for the greatest patron of literature at the time, the Inspector General of Finances, Fouquet.

Louis Hippolyte La Fontaine

1807‐64
Politician and Prime Minister of the United Provinces of Canada in British North America (in office 1848-51). Born in Lower Canada, he entered politics after being elected to the Legislative Assembly of Lower Canada in 1830. He supported L. J. Papineau's political democratization movement, but was a moderate and did not participate in the armed uprising. With the establishment of the United Provinces of Canada in 1841, he formed a cabinet with R. Baldwin, a British Canadian reformer, as a leader of the French Canadian reformers, and served as Attorney General himself.

Source: Heibonsha World Encyclopedia, 2nd Edition Information

Japanese:

1621‐95
フランスの詩人。《寓話詩》によって広く知られる。シャンパーニュ州シャトー･ティエリの森林河川監督官の長男に生まれ，郷里とパリで教育を受け，パリのオラトリオ会神学校に入るが1年でやめる。その後パリで法律を学ぶかたわら同郷の親友モークロアやフュルティエールらと文学を談じ詩作を試みる。結婚し父の官職を継いだが文学に引かれてパリと郷里を往復。54年喜劇《宦官》を初めて刊行。知人を介して当時最大の文芸庇護者，財務総監フーケのお抱え詩人となる。

ラ･フォンテーヌ【Louis Hippolyte La Fontaine】

1807‐64
イギリス領北アメリカ，連合カナダ植民地の政治家，首相(在職1848‐51)。ロワー･カナダに生まれ，1830年，ロワー･カナダ立法議会議員に当選して以来政界に入る。L.J.パピノーの政治民主化運動を支持するが，穏健派であって武装蜂起には参加しなかった。41年の連合カナダ植民地の成立とともにフランス系カナダ改革派の指導者として，イギリス系カナダ改革派のR.ボールドウィンと組んで組閣，自身は法務長官を務めた。

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