Who hasn't delighted in La Fontaine's fables?

I was lost reading La Fontaine Fables with my children and rambling about their final recollections.

t was by chance that on a holiday of 2017 I got lost, like many other times, so I consider it “my light city”, Lisbon and stopping in front of the S. Vicente de Fora Monastery, I decided to enter and it was, without doubt, a pleasant and happy decision. The Monastery built outside the goddess walls of the city whose noble entrance, cloisters and sacristy are richly decorated with beautiful tile panels and a historical collection about the city and our state.

Every nook, the room was a reason to stop me, but more than anything I had ever seen was undoubtedly on the top floor I stopped and took longer, the display of 38 tile panels illustrating some of the poet's 240 fables. French, La Fontaine, inspired by Jean Baptist Oudry's illustrations for the reprint of the Work and the reading of the simple accompanying text, took me and imprisoned me in a world of memories and actions that we are unaware of being so present in these. fables.

Remembering fables with the Cat and the Mouse, the Word of Socrates, the Donkey and the Dog… is undoubtedly a fascination, especially if shared with other adults or children.

I recommend a visit and to be lost in this exhibition if you can buy the book “The fables of La Fontaine of the Monastery of St. Vincent de Fora”, is an excellent book for shared reading and always a rediscovery