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Excerpt from La Fable: �volution du Genre
La fable orientale Au dire de quelques th�oriciens, c'est le myst�rieux Orient, patrie des contes fantastiques, qui pourrait seul revendiquer la paternit� du genre. Cette tradition est aujour d'hui fort �branl�e. Mais il n'en reste pas moins que l'inde et la Perse offrirent, d�s une �poque lointaine, un terrain des plus favorables � l'�elo sion de l'apologue. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.