page_title: The Acorn and the Pumpkin
hierarchical_section_title: The Acorn and the Pumpkin
caption_attribution_description: English: Jules Sebastien-Lepage's illustration of La Fontaine's fable of "The acorn and the pumpkin", 1881. Art Institute of Chicago, watercolor on ivory wove card, 400 x 359 mm
context_page_description: The Acorn and the Pumpkin, in French Le gland et la citrouille, is one of La Fontaine's Fables, published in his second volume in 1679. In English especially, new versions of the story were written to support the teleological argument for creation favoured by English thinkers from the end of the 17th century onwards.
context_section_description: The Acorn and the Pumpkin, in French Le gland et la citrouille, is one of La Fontaine's Fables, published in his second volume (IX.4) in 1679. In English especially, new versions of the story were written to support the teleological argument for creation favoured by English thinkers from the end of the 17th century onwards.
caption: Jules Sebastien-Lepage's illustration of La Fontaine's fable, 1881. Art Institute of Chicago
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