La Fontaine's fables represent the culmination of French classicism, and one of the reference works of French literature of all time. We have chosen three of the best known fables to share with you: The Grasshopper and the Ant; The Fox and the Crow; The Oak and the Reed. Inspired by classic models and seventeenth-century tales from Oriental sources, these fables are the means chosen by the author to criticise in verse some of the most pernicious flaws of the society of his time and future ones, which renders timeless value to these works.