The historic gallery of portraits and paintings; or, Biographical review: (1807)
London, Vernor, Hood, and Sharpe · leaf 357
dgood taste. Besides the Tomb of the Cardinal de Riche-lieu, Paris still possesses the fiDe equestrian statue ofLouis the Fourteenth, in the place Vendome. It is abouttwenty feet high, and was wrought in bronze, at asingle cast, by J. Belthazar Kneller, a very ingeniousartist. At Versailles, there… … JLA [email protected] JEAN DE LA FONTAINE STATUE IN MARBLE.—JULIEN. Jean de la Fontaine was bom at Chateau-Thierry,in the year 1621. He arrived at the age of twenty-twowithout being conscious of his talents. About that period,the perusal of an ode, by Malherbe, made hirn feel thathe was likewise a poet. Mild,…
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