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Jean de La Fontaine, oil painting by François De Troy; in the Bibliothèque Publique et Universitaire, Geneva

Jean de La Fontaine

French poet

Beerbohm, Sir Max

Max Beerbohm

British humorist

Ignacy Krasicki, detail of an oil painting by Per Krafft, 1767; in the National Museum of Warsaw.

Ignacy Krasicki

Polish poet

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Akutagawa Ryūnosuke

Japanese author

Aesop

Aesop

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Robert Henryson

Scottish author

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Christian Fürchtegott Gellert

German writer

Krylov, Ivan Andreyevich

Ivan Andreyevich Krylov

Russian author

Phaedrus

Roman fabulist

János Mailáth, lithograph by J. Ruprecht.

János, Count Mailáth

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Ade, George

George Ade

American playwright

Richard Garnett

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Rūdakī

Persian poet

Ulrich Boner

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Félix María Samaniego

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