Nicolas Fouquet
Fictional depictions have followed the fashionable view of La Fontaine at their period. As a minor character in Alexandre Dumas's novel "The Vicomte of Bragelonne", he appears as a bumbling and scatterbrained courtier of Nicolas Fouquet. In the 2007 film "Jean de La Fontaine – le défi", however, the poet resists the absolutist rule of Louis XIV after the fall of Fouquet.