Les « livrées » de la fable néolatine à l’âge baroque De l’apologue élégiaque à l’ode ésopique

Antoine Biscéré reconsiders the singular place occupied by La Fontaine in the production of fables in the Classical period. He sketches a broad philological panorama which allows for the rediscovery of texts which testify to the continuity and longevity of the genre up to La Fontaine. He seeks to correct the idyllic image of poetic hapax which posterity has too rapidly attributed to the latter.