The fox and the stork
The fox and the stork is a fable that is attributed to the Greek fable poet Aesop .
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The fox once invited the stork to eat. However, the stork could not absorb the broth from the fox's flat plates, its beak was in its way. So the fox could lick everything, the stork stayed hungry. Once more the stork invited the fox to dinner. He smelled the fine foods and the good meat. But he couldn't reach her. The stork had served them in long-necked bottles. The fox was left hungry.
With Aesop, there is finally the moral which functions as a golden rule : What you don't want someone to do to you, don't do that to anyone else.
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Jean de La Fontaine rewrote the fable. Marc Chagall illustrated the fable for La Fontaine's text. Even Leo Tolstoy wrote the fable to into Russian.
The fountains in the labyrinth of Versailles were designed between 1672 and 1681 after the fables of La Fontaine and Aesop, one of these fountains has since been destroyed. One of these fountains was also designed according to the story of the fox and the stork.
Individual evidence
- ↑ zgedicht: https://www.zgedichte.de/gedichte/aesop/der-fuchs-und-der-storch.html , last accessed: January 28, 2019
- ↑ de La Fontaine, Jean: Fables: https://www.projekt-gutenberg.org/fontaine/fabeln1/titlepage.html , last accessed: January 8, 2020
- ^ Ways, Johanna: Fables by Jean de La Fontaine illustrated by Marc Chagall, Insel Verlag, Berlin, 2016, p. 18