gâteau sablé

[wicked matrix]

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[bold yoke]

There are already existent recordings of this fable available on the Internet, for instance here : https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fichier:Le-corbeau-et-le-renardOGGTHOM.ogg

Is there a specific sentence you struggle with ?

[hazy thistle]

merci 😭

oui, c'est: Maître Renard, par l’odeur alléché,

[bold yoke]

It means that the fox (Maître Renard) is attracted (alléché, verb : allécher, see https://www.wordreference.com/fren/allécher) by the smell (odeur) of the cheese :)

[hazy thistle]

master fox?

that's hilarious

[wooden quest]

It's called personalization, giving human characteristics to non-human things. It's a figure of speech. Lafontaine often used this to be satirical of his own era without openly criticizing the power in place.

[bold yoke]

Yes it's translated like that haha

[bold yoke]

Absolutely!

[hazy thistle]

yes, I studied that in english

[hazy thistle]

[hazy thistle]

in english studies, we call it personification

[wooden quest]

Yes, in France too. I'm not sure why I wrote personalization.