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Letters: St. Paul’s rise in property taxes is unsustainable

Pioneer Press 06 Oct 2024
St ... Over the past decade, St ... Gary R. Todd, St ... “Anyone entrusted with power will abuse it if not also animated with the love of truth and virtue, no matter whether he be a prince or one of the people.” — Jean de la Fontaine, 1621-1695.
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Louvre Abu Dhabi hosts art exhibit on timeless relevance of fables

Gulf News 16 Aug 2024
Through historical and contemporary artworks, the show traces the influence of these early fables on the later particularly 17th century French texts of French fabulist Jean de La Fontaine.
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America's bear hug: How US policies hamper Israel's war efforts

Israel Hayom 23 Jul 2024
The United States, while providing crucial military support to Israel, has inadvertently hindered our war efforts against the Hamas terrorist organization ... The French fabulist Jean de La Fontaine coined the term "bear hug" in the 17th century ... Gen ... ....
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Strasbourg for book lovers

San Diego Union-Tribune 21 Jul 2024
The original 17th-century edition of a volume of “Fables Choisies,” by Jean de la Fontaine, at La Jument Verte.
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Torch Relay Stage 59: Lighting up the roads of the Aisne

Inside The Games 18 Jul 2024
The day began poetically with a visit to Chateau-Thierry, the birthplace of Jean de la Fontaine ... designed by the industrialist Jean-Baptiste André Godin to house his workers, and now a listed building.
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Paris 2024 Olympic Games: 10 unusual things to do in Paris

Hindustan Times 09 Jul 2024
The most prestigious and most visited necropolis in Paris, herein lie the graves of famous men and women; Honoré de Balzac, Frédéric Chopin, Jean de La Fontaine, Molière, Yves Montand, Jim Morrison, ...
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Reporters' Notebook: July 8, 2024 \u2013 Recalibrating

The Buffalo News 08 Jul 2024
OLAF FUB SEZ. According to French poet Jean de La Fontaine, born on this date in 1621, “A person often meets his destiny on the road he took to avoid it.”. . ... this evening at the Delaware Park Rose Garden. Tickets at the door or at sarahhaykel.com. . ... 3.
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Anouk Aimée was an entrancing 60s movie icon with an air of glamorous unknowability

The Observer 18 Jun 2024
... with a social status almost exactly equal to that of wife, of Jean-Pierre Cassel’s Fashion Council chief Olivier de la Fontaine who dies farcically choking on a sandwich at the film’s beginning.
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من منظور مستعرب الشّعر العربيّ وقِيَمه الكونية

Nizwa 13 May 2024
– Chedly Bouyahya, “Les Arabes et leur littérature”, in Jean Fontaine, Histoire de la littérature tunisienne, tome 3, Tunis, Cèrès, 1999, pp ... – Dounia Abourachid Badini, La revue Shiʿr/Poésie et la poetique arabe.
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French puppet show "De La Fontaine" wowing audiences in China

Xinhua 10 May 2024
The shows, staged in open-air public places, are based on French writer Jean de La Fontaine's fables "Red Balloon" and "Rooster and Stork Romance." ... French puppet show "De La Fontaine" wowing audiences in China.
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How innocent parents in Rochdale and Orkney had their children snatched away from them by social...

The Daily Mail 29 Apr 2024
... 'He was quite hesitant ... Anthropologist Jean La Fontaine was commissioned by the Government to write a report about the scale of satanic abuse in the UK. Speaking in the documentary, Professor Jean, now 92, said ... Advertisement ... READ MORE ... Advertisement ... .
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When Evil Came to Rochdale, review: disturbing account of the UK’s own ‘Satanic panic’

AOL 28 Apr 2024
Instead, it went back to an earlier scandal ... The stories were easily debunked ... Jean La Fontaine, commissioned by the Government to investigate, concluded that social workers were so convinced of its existence that they were “on a crusade” ... .
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Louvre Abu Dhabi opens From Kalīla wa Dimna to La Fontaine: Travelling through Fables exhibition

The Gulf Time 25 Apr 2024
It highlights how Ibn Al-Muqaffa(c 720-756 CE)’s Arabic translation of Kalīla wa Dimna played a pivotal role in the translations that followed, such as the Persian and French versions that Jean de La Fontaine based his translations on.
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UAE Unveils Dates and Details of 33rd Abu Dhabi International Book Fair

Al Khabar 28 Mar 2024
"Kalila wa Dimna" stands as a prime example of Arabic literature's richness and cultural synthesis, influencing notable figures such as the renowned French poet Jean de La Fontaine and the late Ahmed ...
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Discover Timeless Tales: Louvre Abu Dhabi Presents 'From Kalīla wa Dimna to La Fontaine

Gulf News 28 Mar 2024
Titled 'From Kalīla wa Dimna to La Fontaine ... Image Credit ... Notable loans from Louvre Abu Dhabi's partners include rare treasures such as one of the oldest illustrated manuscripts of Kalīla wa Dimna, portraits of Jean de La Fontaine, and more ... .

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