Popular Culture
A film of his life was released in France in April 2007 (Jean de La Fontaine - le défi, starring Lorant Deutsch). Astronomers named the asteroid 5780 Lafontaine in his honor upon the 300th anniversary of his birth.
Dan Chapman's 2012 novel Looking for Lucy uses an epigram from La Fontaine, 'On rencontre sa destinée souvent par des chemins qu'on prend pour l'éviter', meaning 'Destiny is often met in the paths we take to avoid it'.
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