LA FONTAINE, Jean de (1621-1695). Autograph document signed ('De la fontaine'), a receipt for Claude Lamblay, n.p. [Château-Thierry], 18 January 1656, seven lines of writing, ½ page, 8vo , annotated at the head in a different hand, and endorsed on verso ('droite dentree et sortie de M. de la fontaine 1656 et 1658') (slightly browned, a few tiny holes in left hand lower blank area of leaf, roughly cut at right hand edge).
LA FONTAINE, Jean de (1621-1695). Autograph document signed ('De la fontaine'), a receipt for Claude Lamblay, n.p. [Château-Thierry], 18 January 1656, seven lines of writing, ½ page, 8vo , annotated at the head in a different hand, and endorsed on verso ('droite dentree et sortie de M. de la fontaine 1656 et 1658') (slightly browned, a few tiny holes in left hand lower blank area of leaf, roughly cut at right hand edge). A document signed as an official for the forest: 'J'ay receu soixante et Six livres de Claude Lamblay adiudicataire de trente trois argent de bois taillis pris au taillis [robinet?] dans la forest de vassy pour user la presente année pour droits d'entrée et de sortie ... trente trois argens fait ce douzieme de ianvier mil six cens cinquante six'. The forest of Vassy was close to Château-Thierry on the Marne, where La Fontaine was born and where in 1647, although qualified as a lawyer, he returned to work with his father who held the office of superintendent of forests. He himself sometimes signed documents as 'maitre particulier des eaux et forets de Chateau-Thierry'. Jean de la Fontaine spent most of his first thirty years at Château-Thierry where his grandfather and father had held the post of maître des eaux et forêts . From 1645-47 he studied law in Paris, in order to succeed to his father's office, and in 1652,he purchased, with money from his mother's estate, the post of 'maître particulier biennial des eaux et forêts', requiring him to examine the trees, to see that the peasants took only their due of wood (the subject of the present document) and to apply the game laws, all providing experience later put to good use in the knowledge of country matters shown in his writing. His literary career had not at this time begun and it was only after the death of his father in 1657, leaving him encumbered with debts, that he successfully sought the patronage of Nicolas Fouquet to support his writing. (2)
LA FONTAINE, Jean de (1621-1695). Autograph document signed ('De la fontaine'), a receipt for Claude Lamblay, n.p. [Château-Thierry], 18 January 1656, seven lines of writing, ½ page, 8vo , annotated at the head in a different hand, and endorsed on verso ('droite dentree et sortie de M. de la fontaine 1656 et 1658') (slightly browned, a few tiny holes in left hand lower blank area of leaf, roughly cut at right hand edge).
LA FONTAINE, Jean de (1621-1695). Autograph document signed ('De la fontaine'), a receipt for Claude Lamblay, n.p. [Château-Thierry], 18 January 1656, seven lines of writing, ½ page, 8vo , annotated at the head in a different hand, and endorsed on verso ('droite dentree et sortie de M. de la fontaine 1656 et 1658') (slightly browned, a few tiny holes in left hand lower blank area of leaf, roughly cut at right hand edge). A document signed as an official for the forest: 'J'ay receu soixante et Six livres de Claude Lamblay adiudicataire de trente trois argent de bois taillis pris au taillis [robinet?] dans la forest de vassy pour user la presente année pour droits d'entrée et de sortie ... trente trois argens fait ce douzieme de ianvier mil six cens cinquante six'. The forest of Vassy was close to Château-Thierry on the Marne, where La Fontaine was born and where in 1647, although qualified as a lawyer, he returned to work with his father who held the office of superintendent of forests. He himself sometimes signed documents as 'maitre particulier des eaux et forets de Chateau-Thierry'. Jean de la Fontaine spent most of his first thirty years at Château-Thierry where his grandfather and father had held the post of maître des eaux et forêts . From 1645-47 he studied law in Paris, in order to succeed to his father's office, and in 1652,he purchased, with money from his mother's estate, the post of 'maître particulier biennial des eaux et forêts', requiring him to examine the trees, to see that the peasants took only their due of wood (the subject of the present document) and to apply the game laws, all providing experience later put to good use in the knowledge of country matters shown in his writing. His literary career had not at this time begun and it was only after the death of his father in 1657, leaving him encumbered with debts, that he successfully sought the patronage of Nicolas Fouquet to support his writing. (2)
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