Monuments to great men sometimea grow slowly in other countries as well as our own. Paris has just erected one to La Fontaiae, the well-known author of the fab'es, who lived 230 years ago, and it was eight years before the 51,000 franca which the statue cost was collected.
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New Zealand Tablet, Volume XX, Issue 6, 13 November 1891, Page 25
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49Untitled New Zealand Tablet, Volume XX, Issue 6, 13 November 1891, Page 25
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