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Jean de la Fontaine: A mountain in...

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A mountain in labour shouted so loud that everyone, summoned by the noise, ran up expecting that she would be delivered of a city bigger than Paris; she brought forth a mouse.

Source: Fables, V, 'La Montagne qui accouche.'
-- Jean de la Fontaine, (Jul 8 1621-1695), French poet; His Fables rank among the greatest masterpieces of French literature.


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