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<P><B>The Ant and the Grasshopper</B>, alternatively titled <B>The Grasshopper and the Ant</B> (or <B>Ants</B>), is one of <A href="/wiki/Aesop%27s_Fables" title="Aesop's Fables">Aesop's Fables</A>, numbered 373 in the <A href="/wiki/Perry_Index" title="Perry Index">Perry Index</A>.<SUP id="cite_ref-1" class="reference"><A href="#cite_note-1">[1]</A></SUP> The fable describes how a hungry grasshopper begs for food from an ant when winter comes and is refused. The situation sums up moral lessons about the virtues of hard work and planning for the future.<SUP id="cite_ref-2" class="reference"><A href="#cite_note-2">[2]</A></SUP></P>
<P>Even in Classical times, however, the advice was mistrusted and an alternative story represented the ant's industry as mean and self-serving. <A href="/wiki/Jean_de_la_Fontaine" class="mw-redirect" title="Jean de la Fontaine">Jean de la Fontaine</A>'s delicately ironical retelling in French later widened the debate to cover the themes of compassion and charity. Since the 18th century the grasshopper has been seen as the type of the artist and the question of the place of culture in society has also been included. Argument over the fable's ambivalent meaning has generally been conducted through adaptation or reinterpretation of the fable in literature, arts and music.</P>
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<P>The fable concerns a <A href="/wiki/Grasshopper" title="Grasshopper">grasshopper</A> (in the original, a <A href="/wiki/Cicada" title="Cicada">cicada</A>) that has spent the summer singing while the <A href="/wiki/Ant" title="Ant">ant</A> (or ants in some versions) worked to store up food for winter. When that season arrives, the grasshopper finds itself dying of hunger and begs the ant for food. However, the ant rebukes its idleness and tells it to dance the winter away now.<SUP id="cite_ref-3" class="reference"><A href="#cite_note-3">[3]</A></SUP> Versions of the fable are found in the verse collections of <A href="/wiki/Babrius" title="Babrius">Babrius</A> (140) and <A href="/wiki/Avianus" title="Avianus">Avianus</A> (34), and in several prose collections including those attributed to <A href="/wiki/Syntipas" title="Syntipas">Syntipas</A> and <A href="/wiki/Aphthonius_of_Antioch" title="Aphthonius of Antioch">Aphthonius of Antioch</A>. The fable's <A href="/wiki/Greek_language" title="Greek language">Greek</A> original cicada is kept in the <A href="/wiki/Latin" title="Latin">Latin</A> and <A href="/wiki/Romance_languages" title="Romance languages">Romance</A> translations. A variant fable, separately numbered 112 in the Perry Index,<SUP id="cite_ref-4" class="reference"><A href="#cite_note-4">[4]</A></SUP> features a <A href="/wiki/Dung_beetle" title="Dung beetle">dung beetle</A> as the improvident insect which finds that the winter rains wash away the dung on which it feeds.</P>
<P>The fable is found in a large number of mediaeval Latin sources and also figures as a moral <A href="/wiki/Ballade_(forme_fixe)" title="Ballade (forme fixe)">ballade</A> among the poems of <A href="/wiki/Eustache_Deschamps" title="Eustache Deschamps">Eustache Deschamps</A> under the title of <I>La fourmi et le céraseron</I>.<SUP id="cite_ref-5" class="reference"><A href="#cite_note-5">[5]</A></SUP> From the start it assumes prior knowledge of the fable and presents human examples of provident and improvident behaviour as typified by the insects. As well as appearing in vernacular collections of Aesop's fables in <A href="/wiki/Renaissance" title="Renaissance">Renaissance</A> times, a number of <A href="/wiki/New_Latin_language" class="mw-redirect" title="New Latin language">Neo-Latin</A> poets used it as a subject, including <A href="/wiki/Gabriele_Faerno" title="Gabriele Faerno">Gabriele Faerno</A> (1563),<SUP id="cite_ref-6" class="reference"><A href="#cite_note-6">[6]</A></SUP> <A href="/wiki/Hieronymus_Osius" title="Hieronymus Osius">Hieronymus Osius</A> (1564)<SUP id="cite_ref-7" class="reference"><A href="#cite_note-7">[7]</A></SUP> and <A href="https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Candidus_Pantaleon" class="extiw" title="de:Candidus Pantaleon">Candidus Pantaleon</A> (1604).<SUP id="cite_ref-8" class="reference"><A href="#cite_note-8">[8]</A></SUP></P>
<P>The story has been used to teach the virtues of hard work and the perils of improvidence. Some versions state a moral at the end along the lines of "Idleness brings want", "To work today is to eat tomorrow", "Beware of winter before it comes". In <A href="/wiki/La_Fontaine%27s_Fables" title="La Fontaine's Fables">La Fontaine's Fables</A> no final judgment is made,<SUP id="cite_ref-9" class="reference"><A href="#cite_note-9">[9]</A></SUP> although it has been argued that the author is there making sly fun of his own notoriously improvident ways.<SUP id="cite_ref-10" class="reference"><A href="#cite_note-10">[10]</A></SUP> But the point of view in most retellings of the fable is supportive of the ant. It is also influenced by the commendation in the biblical <A href="/wiki/Book_of_Proverbs" title="Book of Proverbs">Book of Proverbs</A>, which mentions the ant twice. The first proverb admonishes, "Go to the ant, you sluggard! Consider her ways and be wise, which having no captain, overseer or ruler, provides her supplies in the summer, and gathers her food in the harvest" (6.6-9). Later, in a parallel saying of <A href="/wiki/Agur" title="Agur">Agur</A>, the insects figure among the 'four things that are little upon the earth but they are exceeding wise. The ants are a people not strong, yet they provide their food in the summer.' (30.24-5)</P>
<P>There was, nevertheless, an alternative tradition also ascribed to Aesop in which the ant was seen as a bad example. This appears as a counter-fable and is numbered 166 in the Perry Index.<SUP id="cite_ref-11" class="reference"><A href="#cite_note-11">[11]</A></SUP> It relates that the ant was once a man who was always busy farming. Not satisfied with the results of his own labour, he plundered his neighbours' crops at night. This angered the king of the gods, who turned him into what is now an ant. Yet even though the man had changed his shape, he did not change his habits and to this day goes around the fields gathering the fruits of other people's labour, storing them up for himself. The moral given the fable in old Greek sources was that it is easier to change in appearance than to change one's moral nature. It has rarely been noticed since Classical times. Among the few prominent collectors of fables who recorded it later were <A href="/wiki/Gabriele_Faerno" title="Gabriele Faerno">Gabriele Faerno</A> (1564),<SUP id="cite_ref-12" class="reference"><A href="#cite_note-12">[12]</A></SUP> and <A href="/wiki/Roger_L%27Estrange" title="Roger L'Estrange">Roger L'Estrange</A> (1692).<SUP id="cite_ref-13" class="reference"><A href="#cite_note-13">[13]</A></SUP> The latter's comment is that the ant's "Vertue and Vice, in many Cases, are hardly Distinguishable but by the Name".</P>
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<P>Because of the influence of La Fontaine's Fables, in which <I>La cigale et la fourmi</I> stands at the beginning, the cicada then became the proverbial example of improvidence in France: so much so that <A href="/wiki/Jules-Joseph_Lefebvre" class="mw-redirect" title="Jules-Joseph Lefebvre">Jules-Joseph Lefebvre</A> (1836–1911) could paint a picture of a female nude biting one of her nails among the falling leaves and be sure viewers would understand the point by giving it the title <I>La Cigale</I>. The painting was exhibited at the 1872 Salon with a quotation from La Fontaine, <I>Quand la bise fut venue</I> (When the north wind blew), and was seen as a critique of the lately deposed Napoleon III, who had led the nation into a disastrous war with Prussia. Another with the same title, alternatively known as "Girl with a Mandolin" (1890), was painted by Edouard Bisson (1856–1939) and depicts a gypsy musician in a sleeveless dress shivering in the falling snow.<SUP id="cite_ref-14" class="reference"><A href="#cite_note-14">[14]</A></SUP> Also so-named is the painting by <A href="/wiki/Henrietta_Rae" title="Henrietta Rae">Henrietta Rae</A> (a student of Lefebvre's) of a naked girl with a mandolin slung over her back who is cowering among the falling leaves at the root of a tree.<SUP id="cite_ref-15" class="reference"><A href="#cite_note-15">[15]</A></SUP></P>
<P>The grasshopper and the ant are generally depicted as women because both words for the insects are of the feminine gender in most <A href="/wiki/Romance_languages" title="Romance languages">Romance languages</A>. Picturing the grasshopper as a musician, generally carrying a mandolin or guitar, was a convention that grew up when the insect was portrayed as a human being, since singers accompanied themselves on those instruments. The sculptor and painter Ignaz Stern (1679–1748) also has the grasshopper thinly clad and shivering in the paired statues he produced under the title of the fable, while the jovial ant is more warmly dressed.<SUP id="cite_ref-16" class="reference"><A href="#cite_note-16">[16]</A></SUP> But the anticlerical painter <A href="/wiki/Jehan_Georges_Vibert" title="Jehan Georges Vibert">Jehan Georges Vibert</A> has male characters in his picture of "<I>La cigale et la fourmi</I>" from 1875.<SUP id="cite_ref-17" class="reference"><A href="#cite_note-17">[17]</A></SUP> It is painted as a mediaeval scene in which a minstrel with a tall lute on his back encounters a monk on a snow-covered upland. The warmly shrouded monk has been out gathering alms and may be supposed to be giving the musician a lecture on his improvidence. By contrast, the Naturalist Victor-Gabriel Gilbert (1847–1933) pictures the fable as being enacted in the marketplace of a small town in Northern France.<SUP id="cite_ref-18" class="reference"><A href="#cite_note-18">[18]</A></SUP> An elderly stall-keeper is frowning at a decrepit woman who has paused nearby, while her younger companion looks on in distress. In his lithograph from the Volpini Suite, “Les cigales et les fourmis” (1889), <A href="/wiki/Paul_Gauguin" title="Paul Gauguin">Paul Gauguin</A> avoids making a judgment. Subtitled ‘a souvenir of Martinique', it pictures a group of women sitting or lying on the ground while in the background other women walk past with baskets on their heads.<SUP id="cite_ref-19" class="reference"><A href="#cite_note-19">[19]</A></SUP> He is content that they exemplify the behaviour proverbially assigned to the insects without moral comment.</P>
<P>For a long time, the illustrators of fable books had tended to concentrate on picturing winter landscapes, with the encounter between the insects occupying only the lower foreground. In the 19th century the insects grew in size and began to take on human dress. It was this tendency that was reproduced in that curiosity of publishing, the 1894 <I>Choix de Fables de La Fontaine, Illustrée par un Groupe des Meilleurs Artistes de Tokio</I>, which was printed in Japan and illustrated by some of the foremost woodblock artists of the day. Kajita Hanko's treatment of the story takes place in a typical snowy landscape with the cricket approaching a thatched cottage, watched through a window by the robed ant.<SUP id="cite_ref-20" class="reference"><A href="#cite_note-20">[20]</A></SUP> An earlier Chinese treatment, commissioned mid-century by Baron <A href="https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/F%C3%A9lix-S%C3%A9bastien_Feuillet_de_Conches" class="extiw" title="fr:Félix-Sébastien Feuillet de Conches">Félix-Sébastien Feuillet de Conches</A> through his diplomatic contacts, uses human figures to depict the situation. An old woman in a ragged dress approaches the lady of the house, who is working at her spinning wheel on an open verandah.<SUP id="cite_ref-21" class="reference"><A href="#cite_note-21">[21]</A></SUP></P>
<P>Use of the insects to point a moral lesson extends into the 20th century. In Jean Vernon's bronze medal from the 1930s, the supplicant cicada is depicted as crouching on a branch while the ant rears up below with its legs about a beechnut.<SUP id="cite_ref-22" class="reference"><A href="#cite_note-22">[22]</A></SUP> Engraved to one side is its sharp reply, <I>Vous chantiez, j’en suis fort aise./ Eh bien, dansez maintenant.</I> (You sang? I’m glad; now you can dance.) <A href="/wiki/Jacob_Lawrence" title="Jacob Lawrence">Jacob Lawrence</A> depicts much the same scene in his 1969 ink drawing of the fable, but with a different moral intent. There a weeping grasshopper stands before a seated ant who reaches back to lock his storeroom door.<SUP id="cite_ref-23" class="reference"><A href="#cite_note-23">[23]</A></SUP> It is notable that artistic sentiment has by now moved against the ant with the recognition that improvidence is not always the only cause of poverty. Nevertheless, <A href="/wiki/Hungary" title="Hungary">Hungary</A> used the fable to promote a savings campaign on a 60 forint stamp in 1958.<SUP id="cite_ref-24" class="reference"><A href="#cite_note-24">[24]</A></SUP> The following year it appeared again in a series depicting fairy tales,<SUP id="cite_ref-25" class="reference"><A href="#cite_note-25">[25]</A></SUP> as it did as one of many pendents on a 1.50 tögrög stamp from <A href="/wiki/Mongolia" title="Mongolia">Mongolia</A>.<SUP id="cite_ref-26" class="reference"><A href="#cite_note-26">[26]</A></SUP> In this case the main stamp was commemorating the <A href="/wiki/Expo_%2770" title="Expo '70">1970 World's Fair</A> in Japan with a picture of the Suwitomo fairy tale pavilion.</P>
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<P>La Fontaine's portrayal of the Ant as a flawed character, reinforced by the ambivalence of the alternative fable, led to that insect too being viewed as anything but an example of virtue. <A href="/wiki/Jules_Massenet" title="Jules Massenet">Jules Massenet</A>'s two-act ballet <I><A href="/wiki/Cigale" title="Cigale">Cigale</A></I>, first performed at the <A href="/wiki/Op%C3%A9ra-Comique" title="Opéra-Comique">Opéra-Comique</A> in Paris in 1904, portrays the cicada as a charitable woman who takes pity on "La Pauvrette" (the poor little one). But La Pauvrette, after being taken in and fed, is rude and heartless when the situation is reversed. Cigale is left to die in the snow at the close of the ballet.</P>
<P>La Fontaine's poem has also been subverted by several French parodies. <A href="/wiki/Tristan_Corbi%C3%A8re" title="Tristan Corbière">Tristan Corbière</A>'s <I>A Marcelle - le poete et la cigale</I> is a light-hearted literary criticism of a bad poet.<SUP id="cite_ref-27" class="reference"><A href="#cite_note-27">[27]</A></SUP> In the 20th century, <A href="/wiki/Jean_Anouilh" title="Jean Anouilh">Jean Anouilh</A> uses it as the basis for two almost independent fables. In <I>La fourmi et la cigale</I> the ant becomes an overworked housewife whom the dust follows into the grave. The cicada’s comment is that she prefers to employ a maid.<SUP id="cite_ref-28" class="reference"><A href="#cite_note-28">[28]</A></SUP> In <I>La Cigale</I>, Anouilh engages with the reality of the artistic life, reviewing the cicada as the type of the female musician. In this fable she figures as a night-club singer who asks a fox to act as her agent. He believes that she will be an easy victim for his manipulations but she handles him with such frosty finesse that he takes up singing himself.<SUP id="cite_ref-29" class="reference"><A href="#cite_note-29">[29]</A></SUP> <A href="/wiki/Pierre_Perret" title="Pierre Perret">Pierre Perret</A>'s 1990 version in urban slang satirises the cicada's more traditional role as a thoughtless ‘queen of the hit parade’. The subversion lies in the four-line moral at the end, in which he advises that it is better to be an impresario than a performer.<SUP id="cite_ref-30" class="reference"><A href="#cite_note-30">[30]</A></SUP></P>
<P><A href="https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Roland_Bacri" class="extiw" title="fr:Roland Bacri">Roland Bacri</A> takes the tale into fresh territory with his <I>Fable Electorale</I>.<SUP id="cite_ref-31" class="reference"><A href="#cite_note-31">[31]</A></SUP> An unelected politician out of funds visits the ant and, on being asked what he did during the past election, replied that he sang the national anthem. Playing on the final words of La Fontaine's fable (<I>Eh bien, dansez maintenant</I>), the industrialist advises him to stand for president (<I>presidensez maintenant</I>). On the other hand, <A href="/wiki/Francoise_Sagan" class="mw-redirect" title="Francoise Sagan">Francoise Sagan</A> turns the satire against the too industrious. Her ant has been stockpiling all winter and urges the grasshopper to invest in her wares when spring comes. But the grasshopper's needs are few and she advises holding a discount sale instead.<SUP id="cite_ref-32" class="reference"><A href="#cite_note-32">[32]</A></SUP> To take a final example, the Anti-Cancer League has turned the fable into an attack on smoking. The grasshopper's appeal, out of pocket and desperate for a cigarette, is turned down by another play on the original ending. So, she had smoked all through the summer? OK, now cough (<I>Et bien, toussez</I>).<SUP id="cite_ref-33" class="reference"><A href="#cite_note-33">[33]</A></SUP></P>
<P>The English writer <A href="/wiki/W._Somerset_Maugham" title="W. Somerset Maugham">W. Somerset Maugham</A> reverses the moral order in a different way in his short story, "The Ant and The Grasshopper" (1924). It concerns two brothers, one of whom is a dissolute waster whose hard-working brother has constantly to bail out of difficulties. At the end the latter is enraged to discover that his 'grasshopper' brother has married a rich widow, who then dies and leaves him a fortune.<SUP id="cite_ref-34" class="reference"><A href="#cite_note-34">[34]</A></SUP> The story was later adapted in the film <I><A href="/wiki/Encore_(1951_film)" title="Encore (1951 film)">Encore</A></I> (1951) and the English television series <I>Somerset Maugham Hour</I> (1960).<SUP id="cite_ref-35" class="reference"><A href="#cite_note-35">[35]</A></SUP> <A href="/wiki/James_Joyce" title="James Joyce">James Joyce</A> also adapts the fable into a tale of brotherly conflict in "The Ondt and the Gracehoper" episode in <I><A href="/wiki/Finnegans_Wake" title="Finnegans Wake">Finnegans Wake</A></I> (1939)<SUP id="cite_ref-36" class="reference"><A href="#cite_note-36">[36]</A></SUP> and makes of the twin brothers Shem and Shaun opposing tendencies within the human personality:</P>
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<P>In America, <A href="/wiki/John_Ciardi" title="John Ciardi">John Ciardi</A>'s poetical fable for children, "John J. Plenty and Fiddler Dan" (1963), makes an argument for poetry over fanatical hard work. Ciardi's ant, John J. Plenty, is so bent upon saving that he eats very little of what he has saved. Meanwhile, Fiddler Dan the grasshopper and his non-conforming ant wife survive the winter without help and resume playing music with the return of spring.</P>
<P><A href="/wiki/John_Updike" title="John Updike">John Updike</A>'s 1987 short story "Brother Grasshopper" deals with a pair of brothers-in-law whose lives parallel the fable of the ant and the grasshopper. One, Fred Barrow, lives a conservative, restrained existence; the other, Carlyle Lothrop, spends his money profligately, especially on joint vacations for the two men's families, even as he becomes financially insolvent. However, at the end comes an unexpected inversion of the characters' archetypal roles. When Carlyle dies, Fred, now divorced and lonely, realizes that he has been left with a rich store of memories which would not have existed without his friend's largesse.</P>
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<LI><A href="/wiki/Louis-Nicolas_Cl%C3%A9rambault" title="Louis-Nicolas Clérambault">Louis-Nicolas Clérambault</A>, to whom the works in the fables section of <I>Nouvelles poésies spirituelles et morales sur les plus beaux airs</I> (1730–37) have been attributed. The text is modified to fit the tune and is retitled <I>La fourmi et la sauterelle</I>.<SUP id="cite_ref-37" class="reference"><A href="#cite_note-37">[37]</A></SUP></LI>
<LI><A href="/wiki/Jacques_Offenbach" title="Jacques Offenbach">Jacques Offenbach</A> in <I>Six Fables de La Fontaine</I> (1842) for soprano and small orchestra<SUP id="cite_ref-38" class="reference"><A href="#cite_note-38">[38]</A></SUP></LI>
<LI><A href="/wiki/Charles_Gounod" title="Charles Gounod">Charles Gounod</A>, <A href="/wiki/Part-song" class="mw-redirect" title="Part-song">part-song</A> for <A href="/wiki/A_cappella" title="A cappella">a cappella</A> choir (1857)<SUP id="cite_ref-39" class="reference"><A href="#cite_note-39">[39]</A></SUP></LI>
<LI><A href="/wiki/Benjamin_Godard" title="Benjamin Godard">Benjamin Godard</A> in <I>Six Fables de La Fontaine</I> for voice and piano, (Op.17 c.1871)</LI>
<LI><A href="/wiki/Louis_Lacombe" title="Louis Lacombe">Louis Lacombe</A>, set for 4 male voices (Op. 88,2 1887)</LI>
<LI><A href="/wiki/Charles_Lecocq" title="Charles Lecocq">Charles Lecocq</A> in <I>Six Fables de Jean de la Fontaine</I> for voice and piano (1900)<SUP id="cite_ref-40" class="reference"><A href="#cite_note-40">[40]</A></SUP></LI>
<LI><A href="/wiki/Camille_Saint-Sa%C3%ABns" title="Camille Saint-Saëns">Camille Saint-Saëns</A> for voice and piano or orchestra (1910?)</LI>
<LI><A href="/wiki/Andr%C3%A9_Caplet" title="André Caplet">André Caplet</A> in <I>Trois Fables de Jean de la Fontaine</I> (1919) for voice and piano<SUP id="cite_ref-41" class="reference"><A href="#cite_note-41">[41]</A></SUP></LI>
<LI><A href="https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paul-Marie_Masson" class="extiw" title="fr:Paul-Marie Masson">Paul-Marie Masson</A>, for voice and piano (1926)</LI>
<LI><A href="/wiki/Maurice_Delage" title="Maurice Delage">Maurice Delage</A> in <I>Deux fables de Jean de la Fontaine</I> (1931)<SUP id="cite_ref-42" class="reference"><A href="#cite_note-42">[42]</A></SUP></LI>
<LI><A href="https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marcelle_de_Manziarly" class="extiw" title="de:Marcelle de Manziarly">Marcelle de Manziarly</A> in <I>Trois Fables de La Fontaine</I> (1935) for voice and piano<SUP id="cite_ref-43" class="reference"><A href="#cite_note-43">[43]</A></SUP></LI>
<LI><A href="https://nl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jean-Ren%C3%A9_Quignard" class="extiw" title="nl:Jean-René Quignard">Jean-René Quignard</A> for 2 children’s voices</LI>
<LI><A href="/wiki/Charles_Trenet" title="Charles Trenet">Charles Trenet</A>, performed with <A href="/wiki/Django_Reinhardt" title="Django Reinhardt">Django Reinhardt</A> and the Hot Club de France in 1941<SUP id="cite_ref-44" class="reference"><A href="#cite_note-44">[44]</A></SUP></LI>
<LI>Marie-Madeleine Duruflé (1921–99) as the fifth in her <I>6 Fables de La Fontaine</I> for <A href="/wiki/A_cappella" title="A cappella">A cappella</A> female voices (1960)<SUP id="cite_ref-45" class="reference"><A href="#cite_note-45">[45]</A></SUP></LI>
<LI><A href="/wiki/Claude_Ballif" title="Claude Ballif">Claude Ballif</A>, the first of his <I>Chansonettes : 5 Fables de La Fontaine</I> for small mixed choir (Op.72, Nº1 1995)</LI>
<LI><A href="/wiki/Ida_Gotkovsky" title="Ida Gotkovsky">Ida Gotkovsky</A> (1933-), the first fable in <I>Hommage à Jean de La Fontaine</I> for mixed choirs and orchestra (1995)<SUP id="cite_ref-46" class="reference"><A href="#cite_note-46">[46]</A></SUP></LI>
<LI>Jean-Marie Morel (1934-), a small cantata set for children's choir and string quartet in <I>La Fontaine en chantant</I> (1999)</LI>
<LI><A href="/wiki/Isabelle_Aboulker" title="Isabelle Aboulker">Isabelle Aboulker</A> (b. 1938), the fourth piece in <I>Femmes en fables</I> (1999) for high voice with piano<SUP id="cite_ref-47" class="reference"><A href="#cite_note-47">[47]</A></SUP></LI>
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<P>There were two comic operas that went under the title <I>La cigale et la fourmi</I> in the 19th century. The one by <A href="https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ferdinand_Poise" class="extiw" title="fr:Ferdinand Poise">Ferdinand Poise</A> was in one act and dated 1870. The one by <A href="/wiki/Edmond_Audran" title="Edmond Audran">Edmond Audran</A> was in three acts and performed in Paris in 1886, in London in 1890 and in New York in 1891. This was shortly followed by the darker mood of <A href="/wiki/Jules_Massenet" title="Jules Massenet">Jules Massenet</A>'s ballet <I>Cigale</I>, mentioned above. Later adaptations of the fable to ballet include <A href="/wiki/Henri_Sauguet" title="Henri Sauguet">Henri Sauguet</A>'s <I>La cigale at la fourmi</I> (1941) and the third episode in <A href="/wiki/Francis_Poulenc" title="Francis Poulenc">Francis Poulenc</A>'s <I>Les Animaux Modèles</I> (Model Animals, 1941).<SUP id="cite_ref-48" class="reference"><A href="#cite_note-48">[48]</A></SUP> In the 21st century there has been "La C et la F de la F", in which the dancers interact with the text, choreographed by Herman Diephuis for Annie Sellem's composite presentation of the fables in 2004. It also figures among the four in the film <I>Les Fables à la Fontaine</I> directed by Marie-Hélène Rebois in 2004.<SUP id="cite_ref-49" class="reference"><A href="#cite_note-49">[49]</A></SUP></P>
<P>The Belgian composer <A href="/wiki/Joseph_Jongen" title="Joseph Jongen">Joseph Jongen</A> set La Fontaine's fable for children's chorus and piano (op. 118, 1941) and the Dutch composer <A href="https://nl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rudolf_Koumans" class="extiw" title="nl:Rudolf Koumans">Rudolf Koumans</A> set the French text in <I>Vijf fabels van La Fontaine</I> (op. 25, 1964) for school chorus and orchestra. There is a happier ending in the American composer Shawn Allen's children's opera, <I>The Ant and the Grasshopper</I> (1999). At the end of this thirty-minute work, the two insects become musical partners during the winter after the ant revives the dying grasshopper.<SUP id="cite_ref-50" class="reference"><A href="#cite_note-50">[50]</A></SUP></P>
<P>A Russian version of the fable by <A href="/wiki/Ivan_Krylov" title="Ivan Krylov">Ivan Krylov</A> was written under the title "The dragonfly and the ant" (<I>Strekoza i muravej</I>).<SUP id="cite_ref-51" class="reference"><A href="#cite_note-51">[51]</A></SUP> This was set for voice and piano by <A href="/wiki/Anton_Rubinstein" title="Anton Rubinstein">Anton Rubinstein</A> in 1851; a German version (<I>Der Ameise und die Libelle</I>) was later published in Leipzig in 1864 as part of his <I>Fünf Fabeln</I> (Op.64). In the following century the Russian text was again set by <A href="/wiki/Dmitri_Shostakovich" title="Dmitri Shostakovich">Dmitri Shostakovich</A> in <I>Two Fables of Krylov</I> for mezzo-soprano, female chorus and chamber orchestra (op.4, 1922).<SUP id="cite_ref-52" class="reference"><A href="#cite_note-52">[52]</A></SUP> A Hungarian translation of the fable by <A href="/wiki/Dezs%C5%91_Kosztol%C3%A1nyi" title="Dezső Kosztolányi">Dezső Kosztolányi</A> was also set for mezzo-soprano, four-part mixed chorus and 4 guitars or piano by <A href="/wiki/Ferenc_Farkas" title="Ferenc Farkas">Ferenc Farkas</A> in 1977. The Catalan composer <A href="https://ca.wikipedia.org/wiki/Xavier_Benguerel_i_God%C3%B3" class="extiw" title="ca:Xavier Benguerel i Godó">Xavier Benguerel i Godó</A> set the fable in his <I>7 Fábulas de la Fontaine</I> for recitation with orchestra in 1995. These used a Catalan translation by his father, the writer <A href="/w/index.php?title=Xavier_Benguerel_i_Llobet&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Xavier Benguerel i Llobet (page does not exist)">Xavier Benguerel i Llobet</A><SPAN class="noprint" style="font-size:85%; font-style: normal;"> (<A href="https://ca.wikipedia.org/wiki/Xavier_Benguerel_i_Llobet" class="extiw" title="ca:Xavier Benguerel i Llobet">ca</A>)</SPAN>.<SUP id="cite_ref-53" class="reference"><A href="#cite_note-53">[53]</A></SUP></P>
<P>There have also been purely instrumental pieces; these include the first of <A href="/wiki/Antal_Dorati" class="mw-redirect" title="Antal Dorati">Antal Dorati</A>'s <I>5 Pieces for Oboe</I> (1980)<SUP id="cite_ref-54" class="reference"><A href="#cite_note-54">[54]</A></SUP> and the first of Karim Al-Zand's <I>Four Fables for flute, clarinet and piano</I> (2003).<SUP id="cite_ref-55" class="reference"><A href="#cite_note-55">[55]</A></SUP></P>
<P>Settings of the Aesop version have been much rarer. It was among Mabel Wood Hill's <I>Aesop's Fables Interpreted Through Music</I> (New York, 1920).<SUP id="cite_ref-56" class="reference"><A href="#cite_note-56">[56]</A></SUP> It was also included among David Edgar Walther's ‘short operatic dramas’ in 2009. In 2010 Lefteris Kordis set the Greek text as the second fable in his "Aesop Project" for octet and voice.<SUP id="cite_ref-57" class="reference"><A href="#cite_note-57">[57]</A></SUP></P>
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<P>La Fontaine's fable lent itself to animated film features from early on, the first being a version by <A href="/wiki/George_M%C3%A9li%C3%A8s" class="mw-redirect" title="George Méliès">George Méliès</A> in France in 1897. Others produced under the title <I>La cigale et la fourmi</I> were directed by <A href="/wiki/Louis_Feuillade" title="Louis Feuillade">Louis Feuillade</A> (1909) and Georges Monca (1910). There were also Italian films under the title <I>La cicala e la formica</I> by <A href="/wiki/Mario_Caserini" title="Mario Caserini">Mario Caserini</A> (1908) and Renato Molinari (1919). The Russo-Polish producer <A href="/wiki/Ladislaw_Starewicz" class="mw-redirect" title="Ladislaw Starewicz">Ladislaw Starewicz</A> made two versions using animated models. The first was in Russia in 1913 under the title <I>Strekoza i muravey</I>, based on <A href="/wiki/Ivan_Krylov" title="Ivan Krylov">Ivan Krylov</A>'s Russian adaptation of La Fontaine; then, following his flight to France, and using the simplified name of Ladislas Starevich, he filmed a version under the French title (1927). In the UK, <I>The Grasshopper and the Ant</I> was created from cut-out <A href="/wiki/Silhouette" title="Silhouette">silhouettes</A> by <A href="/wiki/Lotte_Reiniger" title="Lotte Reiniger">Lotte Reiniger</A> in 1954.<SUP id="cite_ref-58" class="reference"><A href="#cite_note-58">[58]</A></SUP> In this the main characters, Grasshopper and Miss Ant, are portrayed as humanoid while the rest of the animals and insects are naturalistic. After being refused food and warmth by Miss Ant, Grasshopper is rescued from dying in the snow by squirrels and plays his fiddle for them. Miss Ant wistfully asks if she can join the party and is turned away by the rescuers until Grasshopper intervenes and asks her in to dance with them. In 1998, Pixar Animation Studios released <I><A href="/wiki/A_Bug%27s_Life" title="A Bug's Life">A Bug's Life</A></I>, which focuses on a colony of ants being harassed by a gang of merciless grasshoppers, and the ants enlist a troupe of circus bugs to help them engage the grasshoppers.</P>
<P>In America the <A href="/wiki/Aesop%27s_Film_Fables" class="mw-redirect" title="Aesop's Film Fables">Aesop's Film Fables</A> studio had included <I>The Ants and the Grasshopper</I> (1921) among its early <A href="/wiki/Animated_cartoon" title="Animated cartoon">animated cartoon</A> productions. Then in 1934 <A href="/wiki/Walt_Disney" title="Walt Disney">Walt Disney</A> provided the story with a socially responsible conclusion in <I><A href="/wiki/The_Grasshopper_and_the_Ants_(film)" title="The Grasshopper and the Ants (film)">The Grasshopper and the Ants</A></I> (discussed in the next section). He also adapted the story less directly in the <I>Mickey's Young Readers Library</I> segment, <I>Mickey and the Big Storm</I>; in this, <A href="/wiki/Donald_Duck" title="Donald Duck">Donald Duck</A> and Goofy spend the first day of a winter snowstorm playing out in the snow and don't bother to stock up on supplies. Fortunately for them, <A href="/wiki/Mickey_Mouse" title="Mickey Mouse">Mickey</A> has more than enough for himself and his friends. <A href="/wiki/Friz_Freleng" title="Friz Freleng">Friz Freleng</A> also adapted the tale in his <A href="/wiki/Warner_Bros." title="Warner Bros.">Warner Bros.</A> cartoon <I><A href="/wiki/Porky%27s_Bear_Facts" title="Porky's Bear Facts">Porky's Bear Facts</A></I><SUP id="cite_ref-59" class="reference"><A href="#cite_note-59">[59]</A></SUP> in which <A href="/wiki/Porky_Pig" title="Porky Pig">Porky Pig</A> works hard while his lazy neighbor refuses to do anything, only to suffer during winter. Although Porky at last gives him a meal out of good-neighborly feeling, the bear fails to learn his lesson when spring arrives.</P>
<P>In the later 20th century, there were a number of cynical subversions in TV shows. A typical example was the <I><A href="/wiki/The_Muppet_Show" title="The Muppet Show">Muppet Show</A></I> sketch in which <A href="/wiki/Sam_Eagle" title="Sam Eagle">Sam the Eagle</A>'s reading of the fable is undermined as the ant is stepped on at the end and the grasshopper drives off to <A href="/wiki/Florida" title="Florida">Florida</A> in his sports car.</P>
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<P>La Fontaine follows ancient sources in his 17th century retelling of the fable, where the ant suggests at the end that since the grasshopper has sung all summer she should now dance for its entertainment.<SUP id="cite_ref-60" class="reference"><A href="#cite_note-60">[60]</A></SUP> However, his only direct criticism of the ant is that it lacked generosity. The Grasshopper had asked for a loan which it promised to pay back with interest, but "The Ant had a failing,/She wasn't a lender".</P>
<P>The readers of his time were aware of the Christian duty of charity and therefore sensed the moral ambiguity of the fable. This is further brought out by <A href="/wiki/Gustave_Dor%C3%A9" title="Gustave Doré">Gustave Doré</A>'s 1880s print which pictures the story as a human situation. A female musician stands at a door in the snow with the children of the house looking up at her with sympathy. Their mother looks down from the top of the steps. Her tireless industry is indicated by the fact that she continues knitting but, in a country where the knitting-women (<I>les <A href="/wiki/Tricoteuse" title="Tricoteuse">tricoteuses</A></I>) had jeered at the victims of the <A href="/wiki/Guillotine" title="Guillotine">guillotine</A> during the <A href="/wiki/French_Revolution" title="French Revolution">French Revolution</A>, this activity would also have been associated with lack of pity.</P>
<P>Other French fabulists since La Fontaine had already started the counter-attack on the self-righteous ant. In around 1800 <A href="/wiki/Jean-Jacques_Boisard" title="Jean-Jacques Boisard">Jean-Jacques Boisard</A> has the cricket answering the ant's criticism of his enjoyment of life with the philosophical proposition that since we must all die in the end, <I>Hoarding is folly, enjoyment is wise</I>. In a Catholic educational work (<I>Fables</I>, 1851) <A href="/wiki/Jacques-Melchior_Villefranche" title="Jacques-Melchior Villefranche">Jacques-Melchior Villefranche</A> offers a sequel in which the ant loses its stores and asks the bee for help. The ant's former taunt to the grasshopper is now turned on himself:</P>
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<P>Are you hungry? Well then,<BR />
Turn a pirouette,<BR />
Dine on a mazurka,<BR />
Have polka for supper.</P>
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<P>But then the bee reveals that it has already given the grasshopper shelter and invites the ant to join him since 'All who are suffering/Deserve help equally.'</P>
<P>In the 20th century the fable enters the political arena. <A href="/wiki/Walt_Disney" title="Walt Disney">Walt Disney</A>'s cartoon version, <I><A href="/wiki/The_Grasshopper_and_the_Ants_(film)" title="The Grasshopper and the Ants (film)">The Grasshopper and the Ants</A></I> (1934)<SUP id="cite_ref-61" class="reference"><A href="#cite_note-61">[61]</A></SUP> confronts the dilemma of how to deal with improvidence from the point of view of <A href="/wiki/Franklin_D._Roosevelt" title="Franklin D. Roosevelt">Franklin D. Roosevelt</A>'s <A href="/wiki/New_Deal" title="New Deal">New Deal</A>. The Grasshopper's irresponsibility is underlined by his song "The World Owes us a Living", which later that year became a <A href="/wiki/Shirley_Temple" title="Shirley Temple">Shirley Temple</A> hit,<SUP id="cite_ref-62" class="reference"><A href="#cite_note-62">[62]</A></SUP> rewritten to encase the story of the earlier cartoon. In the end the ants take pity on the grasshopper on certain conditions. The Queen of the Ants decrees that the grasshopper may stay, but he must play his fiddle in return for his room and board. He agrees to this arrangement, finally learning that he needs to make himself useful, and 'changes his tune' to</P>
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<P>Oh I owe the world a living....<BR />
You ants were right the time you said<BR />
You've got to work for all you get.<SUP id="cite_ref-63" class="reference"><A href="#cite_note-63">[63]</A></SUP></P>
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<P>In recent times, the fable has again been put to political use by both sides in the social debate between the enterprise culture and those who consider the advantaged have a responsibility towards the disadvantaged. A modern satirical version of the story, originally written in 1994, has the grasshopper calling a press conference at the beginning of the winter to complain about socio-economic inequity, and being given the ant's house. This version was written by Pittsburgh talk show guru <A href="/wiki/Jim_Quinn" title="Jim Quinn">Jim Quinn</A><SUP id="cite_ref-64" class="reference"><A href="#cite_note-64">[64]</A></SUP> as an attack on the Clinton administration's social programme in the USA. In 2008 Conservative columnist <A href="/wiki/Michelle_Malkin" title="Michelle Malkin">Michelle Malkin</A> also updated the story<SUP id="cite_ref-65" class="reference"><A href="#cite_note-65">[65]</A></SUP> to satirize the policies of 'Barack Cicada'. There have been adaptations into other languages as well. But the commentary at the end of an Indian reworking<SUP id="cite_ref-66" class="reference"><A href="#cite_note-66">[66]</A></SUP> explains such social conflict as the result of selective media presentation that exploits envy and fear.</P>
<P>The fable is equally pressed into service in the debate over the artist's place within the work ethic. In <A href="/wiki/Marie_de_France" title="Marie de France">Marie de France</A>'s mediaeval version the grasshopper had pleaded that its work was 'to sing and bring pleasure to all creatures, but I find none who will now return the same to me.' The ant's reply is thoroughly materialistic, however: 'Why should I give food to thee/When you cannot give aid to me?'<SUP id="cite_ref-67" class="reference"><A href="#cite_note-67">[67]</A></SUP> At the end of the 15th century, <A href="/wiki/Laurentius_Abstemius" title="Laurentius Abstemius">Laurentius Abstemius</A> makes a utilitarian point using different insects in his similar fable of the gnat and the bee.<SUP id="cite_ref-68" class="reference"><A href="#cite_note-68">[68]</A></SUP> The gnat applies to the bee for food and shelter in winter and offers to teach her children music in return. The bee's reply is that she prefers to teach the children a useful trade that will preserve them from hunger and cold.</P>
<P>The fable of "A Gnat and a Bee" was later to be included by Thomas Bewick in his 1818 edition of Aesop's Fables. The conclusion he draws there is that 'The many unhappy people whom we see daily singing up and down in order to divert other people, though with very heavy hearts of their own, should warn all those who have the education of children how necessary it is to bring them up to industry and business, be their present prospects ever so hopeful.'<SUP id="cite_ref-69" class="reference"><A href="#cite_note-69">[69]</A></SUP> The arts are no more highly regarded by the French revolutionary <A href="/wiki/Pierre-Louis_Ginguen%C3%A9" title="Pierre-Louis Ginguené">Pierre-Louis Ginguené</A> whose "New Fables" (1810) include "The Grasshopper and the Other Insects".<SUP id="cite_ref-70" class="reference"><A href="#cite_note-70">[70]</A></SUP> There the Grasshopper exhorts the others to follow his example of tireless artistic activity and is answered that the only justification for poetry can be if it is socially useful.</P>
<P>Such utilitarianism was soon to be challenged by <A href="/wiki/Romanticism" title="Romanticism">Romanticism</A> and its championship of the artist has coloured later attitudes. In the early decades of the 20th century, the Romanian poet <A href="/wiki/George_Top%C3%AErceanu" title="George Topîrceanu">George Topîrceanu</A> was to make the case for pure artistic creation in "The ballad of a small grasshopper" (<I>Balada unui greier mic</I>),<SUP id="cite_ref-71" class="reference"><A href="#cite_note-71">[71]</A></SUP> although more in the telling than by outright moralising. A cricket passes the summer in singing; autumn arrives, but he continues. It is only in icy winter that the cricket realizes that he hasn't provided for himself. He goes to his neighbour, the ant, to ask for something to eat, but the ant refuses saying, “You wasted your time all summer long.” The English folk-singer and children's writer <A href="/wiki/Leon_Rosselson" title="Leon Rosselson">Leon Rosselson</A> subtly turns the tables in much the same way in his 1970s song <I>The Ant and the Grasshopper</I>, using the story to rebuke the self-righteous ant (and those humans with his mindset) for letting his fellow creatures die of want and for his blindness to the joy of life.<SUP id="cite_ref-72" class="reference"><A href="#cite_note-72">[72]</A></SUP></P>
<P>In the field of children's literature, Slade and <A href="/wiki/Toni_Morrison" title="Toni Morrison">Toni Morrison</A>'s <A href="/wiki/Rap" class="mw-redirect" title="Rap">rap</A> retelling of the fable, <I>Who's Got Game?: The Ant or the Grasshopper?</I> (2003), where the grasshopper represents the artisan, provokes a discussion about the importance of art. An earlier improvisation on the story that involves art and its value was written by the Silesian artist <A href="/wiki/Janosch" title="Janosch">Janosch</A> under the title "Die Fiedelgrille und der Maulwurf" (The fiddling cricket and the mole), originally published in 1982 and in English translation in 1983.<SUP id="cite_ref-73" class="reference"><A href="#cite_note-73">[73]</A></SUP> There the cricket fiddles for the entertainment of the animals all summer but is rejected by the stag beetle and the mouse when winter comes. She eventually encounters the mole who loves her music, especially because he is blind. and invites her to stay with him.<SUP id="cite_ref-74" class="reference"><A href="#cite_note-74">[74]</A></SUP></P>
<P>The theme had been treated at an even further distance in <A href="/wiki/Leo_Lionni" title="Leo Lionni">Leo Lionni</A>'s <I>Frederick</I> (1967). Here a fieldmouse, in a community narrowly focused on efficiently gathering for the winter, concentrates instead on gathering impressions. When the other mice question the usefulness of this, Frederick insists that 'gathering sun rays for the cold dark winter days' is also work. Indeed, the community comes to recognise this after the food has run out and morale is low, when it is Frederick's poetry that raises spirits.<SUP id="cite_ref-75" class="reference"><A href="#cite_note-75">[75]</A></SUP></P>
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<LI id="cite_note-2"><SPAN class="mw-cite-backlink"><B><A href="#cite_ref-2"><SPAN class="cite-accessibility-label">Jump up </SPAN>^</A></B></SPAN> <SPAN class="reference-text"><I>Brewer's Concise Dictionary of Phrase and Fable</I>, London reprint 1992, p.36</SPAN></LI>
<LI id="cite_note-3"><SPAN class="mw-cite-backlink"><B><A href="#cite_ref-3"><SPAN class="cite-accessibility-label">Jump up </SPAN>^</A></B></SPAN> <SPAN class="reference-text"><A href="/wiki/Francisco_Rodr%C3%ADguez_Adrados" title="Francisco Rodríguez Adrados">Francisco Rodríguez Adrados</A>, History of the Graeco-Latin fable III, Leiden NL 2003, <A rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://books.google.com/books?id=BHScT2Dd3ykC&pg=PA146">p.146</A></SPAN></LI>
<LI id="cite_note-4"><SPAN class="mw-cite-backlink"><B><A href="#cite_ref-4"><SPAN class="cite-accessibility-label">Jump up </SPAN>^</A></B></SPAN> <SPAN class="reference-text"><CITE class="citation web"><A rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://mythfolklore.net/aesopica/perry/112.htm">"Aesopica website"</A>. Mythfolklore.net<SPAN class="reference-accessdate">. Retrieved <SPAN class="nowrap">2012-04-04</SPAN></SPAN>.</CITE><SPAN title="ctx_ver=Z39.88-2004&rfr_id=info%3Asid%2Fen.wikipedia.org%3AThe+Ant+and+the+Grasshopper&rft.btitle=Aesopica+website&rft.genre=unknown&rft.pub=Mythfolklore.net&rft_id=http%3A%2F%2Fmythfolklore.net%2Faesopica%2Fperry%2F112.htm&rft_val_fmt=info%3Aofi%2Ffmt%3Akev%3Amtx%3Abook" class="Z3988"><SPAN style="display:none;"> </SPAN></SPAN></SPAN></LI>
<LI id="cite_note-5"><SPAN class="mw-cite-backlink"><B><A href="#cite_ref-5"><SPAN class="cite-accessibility-label">Jump up </SPAN>^</A></B></SPAN> <SPAN class="reference-text"><I>Poésie Morale, Paris 1832, <A rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://booksnow2.scholarsportal.info/ebooks/oca4/25/posiesmoralese00descuoft/posiesmoralese00descuoft_bw.pdf">pp.191-2</A></I></SPAN></LI>
<LI id="cite_note-6"><SPAN class="mw-cite-backlink"><B><A href="#cite_ref-6"><SPAN class="cite-accessibility-label">Jump up </SPAN>^</A></B></SPAN> <SPAN class="reference-text"><CITE class="citation book"><A rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://books.google.com/books?id=wlATAAAAQAAJ&pg=RA1-PA18#v=onepage&q=FORMICA&f=false"><I>Fable 7</I></A>. Books.google.co.uk<SPAN class="reference-accessdate">. Retrieved <SPAN class="nowrap">2013-08-18</SPAN></SPAN>.</CITE><SPAN title="ctx_ver=Z39.88-2004&rfr_id=info%3Asid%2Fen.wikipedia.org%3AThe+Ant+and+the+Grasshopper&rft.btitle=Fable+7&rft.genre=book&rft.pub=Books.google.co.uk&rft_id=https%3A%2F%2Fbooks.google.com%2Fbooks%3Fid%3DwlATAAAAQAAJ%26pg%3DRA1-PA18%23v%3Donepage%26q%3DFORMICA%26f%3Dfalse&rft_val_fmt=info%3Aofi%2Ffmt%3Akev%3Amtx%3Abook" class="Z3988"><SPAN style="display:none;"> </SPAN></SPAN></SPAN></LI>
<LI id="cite_note-7"><SPAN class="mw-cite-backlink"><B><A href="#cite_ref-7"><SPAN class="cite-accessibility-label">Jump up </SPAN>^</A></B></SPAN> <SPAN class="reference-text"><CITE class="citation web"><A rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://www.uni-mannheim.de/mateo/camena/del2/deliciae2.html#delb0172">"Fable 88"</A>. Uni-mannheim.de<SPAN class="reference-accessdate">. Retrieved <SPAN class="nowrap">2013-08-18</SPAN></SPAN>.</CITE><SPAN title="ctx_ver=Z39.88-2004&rfr_id=info%3Asid%2Fen.wikipedia.org%3AThe+Ant+and+the+Grasshopper&rft.btitle=Fable+88&rft.genre=unknown&rft.pub=Uni-mannheim.de&rft_id=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.uni-mannheim.de%2Fmateo%2Fcamena%2Fdel2%2Fdeliciae2.html%23delb0172&rft_val_fmt=info%3Aofi%2Ffmt%3Akev%3Amtx%3Abook" class="Z3988"><SPAN style="display:none;"> </SPAN></SPAN></SPAN></LI>
<LI id="cite_note-8"><SPAN class="mw-cite-backlink"><B><A href="#cite_ref-8"><SPAN class="cite-accessibility-label">Jump up </SPAN>^</A></B></SPAN> <SPAN class="reference-text"><CITE class="citation web"><A rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://www.uni-mannheim.de/mateo/camena/del2/deliciae2.html#delb0172">"Fable 145"</A>. Uni-mannheim.de<SPAN class="reference-accessdate">. Retrieved <SPAN class="nowrap">2013-08-18</SPAN></SPAN>.</CITE><SPAN title="ctx_ver=Z39.88-2004&rfr_id=info%3Asid%2Fen.wikipedia.org%3AThe+Ant+and+the+Grasshopper&rft.btitle=Fable+145&rft.genre=unknown&rft.pub=Uni-mannheim.de&rft_id=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.uni-mannheim.de%2Fmateo%2Fcamena%2Fdel2%2Fdeliciae2.html%23delb0172&rft_val_fmt=info%3Aofi%2Ffmt%3Akev%3Amtx%3Abook" class="Z3988"><SPAN style="display:none;"> </SPAN></SPAN></SPAN></LI>
<LI id="cite_note-9"><SPAN class="mw-cite-backlink"><B><A href="#cite_ref-9"><SPAN class="cite-accessibility-label">Jump up </SPAN>^</A></B></SPAN> <SPAN class="reference-text"><CITE class="citation web">Jean de La Fontaine. <A rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://www.bewilderingstories.com/issue209/cigale.html">"Original text and translation"</A>. Bewilderingstories.com<SPAN class="reference-accessdate">. Retrieved <SPAN class="nowrap">2013-08-18</SPAN></SPAN>.</CITE><SPAN title="ctx_ver=Z39.88-2004&rfr_id=info%3Asid%2Fen.wikipedia.org%3AThe+Ant+and+the+Grasshopper&rft.au=Jean+de+La+Fontaine&rft.btitle=Original+text+and+translation&rft.genre=unknown&rft.pub=Bewilderingstories.com&rft_id=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.bewilderingstories.com%2Fissue209%2Fcigale.html&rft_val_fmt=info%3Aofi%2Ffmt%3Akev%3Amtx%3Abook" class="Z3988"><SPAN style="display:none;"> </SPAN></SPAN></SPAN></LI>
<LI id="cite_note-10"><SPAN class="mw-cite-backlink"><B><A href="#cite_ref-10"><SPAN class="cite-accessibility-label">Jump up </SPAN>^</A></B></SPAN> <SPAN class="reference-text">Andrew Calder, The Fables of La Fontaine: Wisdom Brought Down to Earth, Geneva CH 2001, <A rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://books.google.com/books?id=XBYMPjmrr-kC&lpg=PA23&ots=O6sh5BfUpI&dq=%22La%20Fontaine%22%20song&pg=PA18#v=onepage&q=%22La%20Fontaine%22%20song&f=false">pp.18-24</A></SPAN></LI>
<LI id="cite_note-11"><SPAN class="mw-cite-backlink"><B><A href="#cite_ref-11"><SPAN class="cite-accessibility-label">Jump up </SPAN>^</A></B></SPAN> <SPAN class="reference-text">"Zeus and the Ant", <CITE class="citation web"><A rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://mythfolklore.net/aesopica/perry/166.htm">"Mythfolklore.net"</A>. Mythfolklore.net<SPAN class="reference-accessdate">. Retrieved <SPAN class="nowrap">2012-04-04</SPAN></SPAN>.</CITE><SPAN title="ctx_ver=Z39.88-2004&rfr_id=info%3Asid%2Fen.wikipedia.org%3AThe+Ant+and+the+Grasshopper&rft.btitle=Mythfolklore.net&rft.genre=unknown&rft.pub=Mythfolklore.net&rft_id=http%3A%2F%2Fmythfolklore.net%2Faesopica%2Fperry%2F166.htm&rft_val_fmt=info%3Aofi%2Ffmt%3Akev%3Amtx%3Abook" class="Z3988"><SPAN style="display:none;"> </SPAN></SPAN></SPAN></LI>
<LI id="cite_note-12"><SPAN class="mw-cite-backlink"><B><A href="#cite_ref-12"><SPAN class="cite-accessibility-label">Jump up </SPAN>^</A></B></SPAN> <SPAN class="reference-text"><CITE class="citation book"><A rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://books.google.com/books?id=wlATAAAAQAAJ&printsec=frontcover&dq=%22Faerno++imaginibus+in&source=bl&ots=N8M1DjLpfJ&sig=r7uYDhp8xlgnGyCovGuX75xWue8&hl=en&ei=0JBzTefVEKOAhAfjvuxC&sa=X&oi=book_result&ct=result&resnum=1&sqi=2&ved=0CBgQ6AEwAA#v=onepage&q=LXXXIII%20Formica&f=false"><I>Fable LXXXIII, available online</I></A>. Books.google.co.uk<SPAN class="reference-accessdate">. Retrieved <SPAN class="nowrap">2012-04-04</SPAN></SPAN>.</CITE><SPAN title="ctx_ver=Z39.88-2004&rfr_id=info%3Asid%2Fen.wikipedia.org%3AThe+Ant+and+the+Grasshopper&rft.btitle=Fable+LXXXIII%2C+available+online&rft.genre=book&rft.pub=Books.google.co.uk&rft_id=https%3A%2F%2Fbooks.google.com%2Fbooks%3Fid%3DwlATAAAAQAAJ%26printsec%3Dfrontcover%26dq%3D%2522Faerno%2B%2Bimaginibus%2Bin%26source%3Dbl%26ots%3DN8M1DjLpfJ%26sig%3Dr7uYDhp8xlgnGyCovGuX75xWue8%26hl%3Den%26ei%3D0JBzTefVEKOAhAfjvuxC%26sa%3DX%26oi%3Dbook_result%26ct%3Dresult%26resnum%3D1%26sqi%3D2%26ved%3D0CBgQ6AEwAA%23v%3Donepage%26q%3DLXXXIII%2520Formica%26f%3Dfalse&rft_val_fmt=info%3Aofi%2Ffmt%3Akev%3Amtx%3Abook" class="Z3988"><SPAN style="display:none;"> </SPAN></SPAN></SPAN></LI>
<LI id="cite_note-13"><SPAN class="mw-cite-backlink"><B><A href="#cite_ref-13"><SPAN class="cite-accessibility-label">Jump up </SPAN>^</A></B></SPAN> <SPAN class="reference-text"><CITE class="citation web"><A rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://mythfolklore.net/aesopica/lestrange/188.htm">"Fable 188"</A>. Mythfolklore.net<SPAN class="reference-accessdate">. Retrieved <SPAN class="nowrap">2012-04-04</SPAN></SPAN>.</CITE><SPAN title="ctx_ver=Z39.88-2004&rfr_id=info%3Asid%2Fen.wikipedia.org%3AThe+Ant+and+the+Grasshopper&rft.btitle=Fable+188&rft.genre=unknown&rft.pub=Mythfolklore.net&rft_id=http%3A%2F%2Fmythfolklore.net%2Faesopica%2Flestrange%2F188.htm&rft_val_fmt=info%3Aofi%2Ffmt%3Akev%3Amtx%3Abook" class="Z3988"><SPAN style="display:none;"> </SPAN></SPAN></SPAN></LI>
<LI id="cite_note-14"><SPAN class="mw-cite-backlink"><B><A href="#cite_ref-14"><SPAN class="cite-accessibility-label">Jump up </SPAN>^</A></B></SPAN> <SPAN class="reference-text"><CITE class="citation web"><A rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://www.iment.com/maida/family/mother/vicars/edouardbisson.htm">"IMENT.com"</A>. IMENT.com<SPAN class="reference-accessdate">. Retrieved <SPAN class="nowrap">2012-04-04</SPAN></SPAN>.</CITE><SPAN title="ctx_ver=Z39.88-2004&rfr_id=info%3Asid%2Fen.wikipedia.org%3AThe+Ant+and+the+Grasshopper&rft.btitle=IMENT.com&rft.genre=unknown&rft.pub=IMENT.com&rft_id=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.iment.com%2Fmaida%2Ffamily%2Fmother%2Fvicars%2Fedouardbisson.htm&rft_val_fmt=info%3Aofi%2Ffmt%3Akev%3Amtx%3Abook" class="Z3988"><SPAN style="display:none;"> </SPAN></SPAN></SPAN></LI>
<LI id="cite_note-15"><SPAN class="mw-cite-backlink"><B><A href="#cite_ref-15"><SPAN class="cite-accessibility-label">Jump up </SPAN>^</A></B></SPAN> <SPAN class="reference-text">View on <A rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://www.flickr.com/photos/sofi01/5882819640/in/set-72157627072297004">Flickr</A></SPAN></LI>
<LI id="cite_note-16"><SPAN class="mw-cite-backlink"><B><A href="#cite_ref-16"><SPAN class="cite-accessibility-label">Jump up </SPAN>^</A></B></SPAN> <SPAN class="reference-text"><A rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://www.artvalue.com/photos/auction/0/47/47914/stern-ignaz-stella-1679-1748-g-la-cigale-et-la-fourmi-2569732.jpg">Art Value</A></SPAN></LI>
<LI id="cite_note-17"><SPAN class="mw-cite-backlink"><B><A href="#cite_ref-17"><SPAN class="cite-accessibility-label">Jump up </SPAN>^</A></B></SPAN> <SPAN class="reference-text">Available on <A rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://www.flickr.com/photos/jehangeorgesvibert/4413902749">Flickr</A></SPAN></LI>
<LI id="cite_note-18"><SPAN class="mw-cite-backlink"><B><A href="#cite_ref-18"><SPAN class="cite-accessibility-label">Jump up </SPAN>^</A></B></SPAN> <SPAN class="reference-text"><CITE class="citation web">Česky. <A rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://www.wikigallery.org/wiki/painting_364727/Victor-Gabriel-Gilbert/The-Grasshopper-And-The-Ant">"WikiGallery"</A>. WikiGallery<SPAN class="reference-accessdate">. Retrieved <SPAN class="nowrap">2012-04-04</SPAN></SPAN>.</CITE><SPAN title="ctx_ver=Z39.88-2004&rfr_id=info%3Asid%2Fen.wikipedia.org%3AThe+Ant+and+the+Grasshopper&rft.au=%C4%8Cesky&rft.btitle=WikiGallery&rft.genre=unknown&rft.pub=WikiGallery&rft_id=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.wikigallery.org%2Fwiki%2Fpainting_364727%2FVictor-Gabriel-Gilbert%2FThe-Grasshopper-And-The-Ant&rft_val_fmt=info%3Aofi%2Ffmt%3Akev%3Amtx%3Abook" class="Z3988"><SPAN style="display:none;"> </SPAN></SPAN></SPAN></LI>
<LI id="cite_note-19"><SPAN class="mw-cite-backlink"><B><A href="#cite_ref-19"><SPAN class="cite-accessibility-label">Jump up </SPAN>^</A></B></SPAN> <SPAN class="reference-text"><CITE class="citation web"><A rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://www.metmuseum.org/toah/works-of-art/22.82.2-4">"Paul Gauguin: The Grasshoppers and the Ants: A Souvenir of Martinique, from the Volpini Suite: Dessins lithographiques (22.82.2-4) | Heilbrunn Timeline of Art History | The Metropolitan Museum of Art"</A>. Metmuseum.org. 2013-08-09<SPAN class="reference-accessdate">. Retrieved <SPAN class="nowrap">2013-08-18</SPAN></SPAN>.</CITE><SPAN title="ctx_ver=Z39.88-2004&rfr_id=info%3Asid%2Fen.wikipedia.org%3AThe+Ant+and+the+Grasshopper&rft.btitle=Paul+Gauguin%3A+The+Grasshoppers+and+the+Ants%3A+A+Souvenir+of+Martinique%2C+from+the+Volpini+Suite%3A+Dessins+lithographiques+%2822.82.2-4%29+%26%23124%3B+Heilbrunn+Timeline+of+Art+History+%26%23124%3B+The+Metropolitan+Museum+of+Art&rft.date=2013-08-09&rft.genre=unknown&rft.pub=Metmuseum.org&rft_id=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.metmuseum.org%2Ftoah%2Fworks-of-art%2F22.82.2-4&rft_val_fmt=info%3Aofi%2Ffmt%3Akev%3Amtx%3Abook" class="Z3988"><SPAN style="display:none;"> </SPAN></SPAN></SPAN></LI>
<LI id="cite_note-20"><SPAN class="mw-cite-backlink"><B><A href="#cite_ref-20"><SPAN class="cite-accessibility-label">Jump up </SPAN>^</A></B></SPAN> <SPAN class="reference-text"><CITE class="citation web"><A rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://www.baxleystamps.com/litho/hasegawa/fontaine_t1_1894_1-1.jpg">"View online"</A><SPAN class="reference-accessdate">. Retrieved <SPAN class="nowrap">2012-04-04</SPAN></SPAN>.</CITE><SPAN title="ctx_ver=Z39.88-2004&rfr_id=info%3Asid%2Fen.wikipedia.org%3AThe+Ant+and+the+Grasshopper&rft.btitle=View+online&rft.genre=unknown&rft_id=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.baxleystamps.com%2Flitho%2Fhasegawa%2Ffontaine_t1_1894_1-1.jpg&rft_val_fmt=info%3Aofi%2Ffmt%3Akev%3Amtx%3Abook" class="Z3988"><SPAN style="display:none;"> </SPAN></SPAN></SPAN></LI>
<LI id="cite_note-21"><SPAN class="mw-cite-backlink"><B><A href="#cite_ref-21"><SPAN class="cite-accessibility-label">Jump up </SPAN>^</A></B></SPAN> <SPAN class="reference-text"><CITE class="citation web"><A rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://www.la-fontaine-ch-thierry.net/nouv09/mincigfour.jpg">"View online"</A><SPAN class="reference-accessdate">. Retrieved <SPAN class="nowrap">2012-04-04</SPAN></SPAN>.</CITE><SPAN title="ctx_ver=Z39.88-2004&rfr_id=info%3Asid%2Fen.wikipedia.org%3AThe+Ant+and+the+Grasshopper&rft.btitle=View+online&rft.genre=unknown&rft_id=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.la-fontaine-ch-thierry.net%2Fnouv09%2Fmincigfour.jpg&rft_val_fmt=info%3Aofi%2Ffmt%3Akev%3Amtx%3Abook" class="Z3988"><SPAN style="display:none;"> </SPAN></SPAN></SPAN></LI>
<LI id="cite_note-22"><SPAN class="mw-cite-backlink"><B><A href="#cite_ref-22"><SPAN class="cite-accessibility-label">Jump up </SPAN>^</A></B></SPAN> <SPAN class="reference-text"><CITE class="citation web"><A rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://www.creighton.edu/aesop/artifacts/desktop/medallions/index.php">"Creighton University"</A>. Creighton.edu<SPAN class="reference-accessdate">. Retrieved <SPAN class="nowrap">2013-08-18</SPAN></SPAN>.</CITE><SPAN title="ctx_ver=Z39.88-2004&rfr_id=info%3Asid%2Fen.wikipedia.org%3AThe+Ant+and+the+Grasshopper&rft.btitle=Creighton+University&rft.genre=unknown&rft.pub=Creighton.edu&rft_id=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.creighton.edu%2Faesop%2Fartifacts%2Fdesktop%2Fmedallions%2Findex.php&rft_val_fmt=info%3Aofi%2Ffmt%3Akev%3Amtx%3Abook" class="Z3988"><SPAN style="display:none;"> </SPAN></SPAN></SPAN></LI>
<LI id="cite_note-23"><SPAN class="mw-cite-backlink"><B><A href="#cite_ref-23"><SPAN class="cite-accessibility-label">Jump up </SPAN>^</A></B></SPAN> <SPAN class="reference-text">Hood Museum of Art, Hanover NH; <A rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://www.terminartors.com/artworkprofile/Lawrence_Jacob-The_Ant_and_the_Grasshopper">view online</A></SPAN></LI>
<LI id="cite_note-24"><SPAN class="mw-cite-backlink"><B><A href="#cite_ref-24"><SPAN class="cite-accessibility-label">Jump up </SPAN>^</A></B></SPAN> <SPAN class="reference-text"><CITE class="citation web"><A rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://philatelia.ru/pict/cat2/stamp/4821s.jpg">"View online"</A><SPAN class="reference-accessdate">. Retrieved <SPAN class="nowrap">2012-04-04</SPAN></SPAN>.</CITE><SPAN title="ctx_ver=Z39.88-2004&rfr_id=info%3Asid%2Fen.wikipedia.org%3AThe+Ant+and+the+Grasshopper&rft.btitle=View+online&rft.genre=unknown&rft_id=http%3A%2F%2Fphilatelia.ru%2Fpict%2Fcat2%2Fstamp%2F4821s.jpg&rft_val_fmt=info%3Aofi%2Ffmt%3Akev%3Amtx%3Abook" class="Z3988"><SPAN style="display:none;"> </SPAN></SPAN></SPAN></LI>
<LI id="cite_note-25"><SPAN class="mw-cite-backlink"><B><A href="#cite_ref-25"><SPAN class="cite-accessibility-label">Jump up </SPAN>^</A></B></SPAN> <SPAN class="reference-text"><CITE class="citation web"><A rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://colnect.com/en/stamps/stamp/177850-The_Cricket_and_the_Ant-Fairy_Tales-Hungary">"View online"</A>. Colnect.com<SPAN class="reference-accessdate">. Retrieved <SPAN class="nowrap">2012-04-04</SPAN></SPAN>.</CITE><SPAN title="ctx_ver=Z39.88-2004&rfr_id=info%3Asid%2Fen.wikipedia.org%3AThe+Ant+and+the+Grasshopper&rft.btitle=View+online&rft.genre=unknown&rft.pub=Colnect.com&rft_id=http%3A%2F%2Fcolnect.com%2Fen%2Fstamps%2Fstamp%2F177850-The_Cricket_and_the_Ant-Fairy_Tales-Hungary&rft_val_fmt=info%3Aofi%2Ffmt%3Akev%3Amtx%3Abook" class="Z3988"><SPAN style="display:none;"> </SPAN></SPAN></SPAN></LI>
<LI id="cite_note-26"><SPAN class="mw-cite-backlink"><B><A href="#cite_ref-26"><SPAN class="cite-accessibility-label">Jump up </SPAN>^</A></B></SPAN> <SPAN class="reference-text"><CITE class="citation web"><A rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://philatelia.ru/pict/cat2/stamp/4822s.jpg">"View online"</A><SPAN class="reference-accessdate">. Retrieved <SPAN class="nowrap">2012-04-04</SPAN></SPAN>.</CITE><SPAN title="ctx_ver=Z39.88-2004&rfr_id=info%3Asid%2Fen.wikipedia.org%3AThe+Ant+and+the+Grasshopper&rft.btitle=View+online&rft.genre=unknown&rft_id=http%3A%2F%2Fphilatelia.ru%2Fpict%2Fcat2%2Fstamp%2F4822s.jpg&rft_val_fmt=info%3Aofi%2Ffmt%3Akev%3Amtx%3Abook" class="Z3988"><SPAN style="display:none;"> </SPAN></SPAN></SPAN></LI>
<LI id="cite_note-27"><SPAN class="mw-cite-backlink"><B><A href="#cite_ref-27"><SPAN class="cite-accessibility-label">Jump up </SPAN>^</A></B></SPAN> <SPAN class="reference-text"><I>Les Amours Jaunes</I> (Paris 1873), text on the <A rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://poesie.webnet.fr/lesgrandsclassiques/poemes/tristan_corbiere/a_marcelle_la_cigale_et_le_poete.html">French Classics site</A>.</SPAN></LI>
<LI id="cite_note-28"><SPAN class="mw-cite-backlink"><B><A href="#cite_ref-28"><SPAN class="cite-accessibility-label">Jump up </SPAN>^</A></B></SPAN> <SPAN class="reference-text">The text is version 4 on this <A rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://www.lille.iufm.fr/passages/article.php3?id_article=108">teaching resources site</A></SPAN></LI>
<LI id="cite_note-29"><SPAN class="mw-cite-backlink"><B><A href="#cite_ref-29"><SPAN class="cite-accessibility-label">Jump up </SPAN>^</A></B></SPAN> <SPAN class="reference-text"><I>Fables de Jean Anouilh</I>, Paris, 1962. The text is on this Online Academy teaching document, <A rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://www.academie-en-ligne.fr/Ressources/7/FR10/AL7FR10TEPA0211-Sequence-08.pdf">pp.30-2</A></SPAN></LI>
<LI id="cite_note-30"><SPAN class="mw-cite-backlink"><B><A href="#cite_ref-30"><SPAN class="cite-accessibility-label">Jump up </SPAN>^</A></B></SPAN> <SPAN class="reference-text">Le Petit Perret des Fables<I>, Paris, 1990. <A rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://argot.abaabaa.com/Fable_de_la_Fontaine_en_argot_par_Pierre_PERRET.php">Le Dictionnaire Argot Française</A></I></SPAN></LI>
<LI id="cite_note-31"><SPAN class="mw-cite-backlink"><B><A href="#cite_ref-31"><SPAN class="cite-accessibility-label">Jump up </SPAN>^</A></B></SPAN> <SPAN class="reference-text"><I>Le Canard Enchaîné</I> 1995. The text is on pp.35-6 of the Online Academy <A rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://www.academie-en-ligne.fr/Ressources/7/FR10/AL7FR10TEPA0211-Sequence-08.pdf">teaching document</A></SPAN></LI>
<LI id="cite_note-32"><SPAN class="mw-cite-backlink"><B><A href="#cite_ref-32"><SPAN class="cite-accessibility-label">Jump up </SPAN>^</A></B></SPAN> <SPAN class="reference-text"><I>La Fourmi et la Cigale</I>, Paris 2010. The text is on the <A rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://www.lettres.ac-aix-marseille.fr/fran/auteursfr/fable.htm">Académie D’Aix Marseille site</A></SPAN></LI>
<LI id="cite_note-33"><SPAN class="mw-cite-backlink"><B><A href="#cite_ref-33"><SPAN class="cite-accessibility-label">Jump up </SPAN>^</A></B></SPAN> <SPAN class="reference-text"><CITE class="citation web"><A rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://www.itereva.pf/disciplines/lettres/didac/seqcol/doc264.htm">"L'univers des fables, La cigale, le tabac et la fourmi"</A>. Itereva.pf<SPAN class="reference-accessdate">. Retrieved <SPAN class="nowrap">2013-08-18</SPAN></SPAN>.</CITE><SPAN title="ctx_ver=Z39.88-2004&rfr_id=info%3Asid%2Fen.wikipedia.org%3AThe+Ant+and+the+Grasshopper&rft.btitle=L%27univers+des+fables%2C+La+cigale%2C+le+tabac+et+la+fourmi&rft.genre=unknown&rft.pub=Itereva.pf&rft_id=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.itereva.pf%2Fdisciplines%2Flettres%2Fdidac%2Fseqcol%2Fdoc264.htm&rft_val_fmt=info%3Aofi%2Ffmt%3Akev%3Amtx%3Abook" class="Z3988"><SPAN style="display:none;"> </SPAN></SPAN></SPAN></LI>
<LI id="cite_note-34"><SPAN class="mw-cite-backlink"><B><A href="#cite_ref-34"><SPAN class="cite-accessibility-label">Jump up </SPAN>^</A></B></SPAN> <SPAN class="reference-text">Maugham, Somerset: <I>Collected Short Stories</I> Vol 1, story 5</SPAN></LI>
<LI id="cite_note-35"><SPAN class="mw-cite-backlink"><B><A href="#cite_ref-35"><SPAN class="cite-accessibility-label">Jump up </SPAN>^</A></B></SPAN> <SPAN class="reference-text"><A rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0896397">IMDB</A></SPAN></LI>
<LI id="cite_note-36"><SPAN class="mw-cite-backlink"><B><A href="#cite_ref-36"><SPAN class="cite-accessibility-label">Jump up </SPAN>^</A></B></SPAN> <SPAN class="reference-text">III.1, pp.414-19, <A rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://finwake.com/1024chapter31/1024finn31.htm">Finwake.com</A></SPAN></LI>
<LI id="cite_note-37"><SPAN class="mw-cite-backlink"><B><A href="#cite_ref-37"><SPAN class="cite-accessibility-label">Jump up </SPAN>^</A></B></SPAN> <SPAN class="reference-text">The score appears in John Metz, <I>The Fables of La Fontaine: A Critical Edition of the Eighteenth-Century</I>, Pendragon Press 1986, <A rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://books.google.com/books?id=vVHRlG34Ub4C&lpg=PP1&pg=PA43#v=onepage&q=sauterelle&f=false">p.43</A></SPAN></LI>
<LI id="cite_note-38"><SPAN class="mw-cite-backlink"><B><A href="#cite_ref-38"><SPAN class="cite-accessibility-label">Jump up </SPAN>^</A></B></SPAN> <SPAN class="reference-text"><A rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nIcoHf1dQpA%7CA">performance</A></SPAN></LI>
<LI id="cite_note-39"><SPAN class="mw-cite-backlink"><B><A href="#cite_ref-39"><SPAN class="cite-accessibility-label">Jump up </SPAN>^</A></B></SPAN> <SPAN class="reference-text"><CITE class="citation web"><A rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://www.wretch.cc/album/show.php?i=FRLT1800&b=37&f=1609185924&p=3">"Jean de La Fontaine - FRLT1800's Album - WRETCH"</A>. Wretch.cc<SPAN class="reference-accessdate">. Retrieved <SPAN class="nowrap">2013-08-18</SPAN></SPAN>.</CITE><SPAN title="ctx_ver=Z39.88-2004&rfr_id=info%3Asid%2Fen.wikipedia.org%3AThe+Ant+and+the+Grasshopper&rft.btitle=Jean+de+La+Fontaine+-+FRLT1800%27s+Album+-+WRETCH&rft.genre=unknown&rft.pub=Wretch.cc&rft_id=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.wretch.cc%2Falbum%2Fshow.php%3Fi%3DFRLT1800%26b%3D37%26f%3D1609185924%26p%3D3&rft_val_fmt=info%3Aofi%2Ffmt%3Akev%3Amtx%3Abook" class="Z3988"><SPAN style="display:none;"> </SPAN></SPAN></SPAN></LI>
<LI id="cite_note-40"><SPAN class="mw-cite-backlink"><B><A href="#cite_ref-40"><SPAN class="cite-accessibility-label">Jump up </SPAN>^</A></B></SPAN> <SPAN class="reference-text"><CITE class="citation web"><A rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://www.wretch.cc/album/show.php?i=FRLT1800&b=37&f=1609185922&p=1">"Jean de La Fontaine - FRLT1800's Album - WRETCH"</A>. Wretch.cc<SPAN class="reference-accessdate">. Retrieved <SPAN class="nowrap">2013-08-18</SPAN></SPAN>.</CITE><SPAN title="ctx_ver=Z39.88-2004&rfr_id=info%3Asid%2Fen.wikipedia.org%3AThe+Ant+and+the+Grasshopper&rft.btitle=Jean+de+La+Fontaine+-+FRLT1800%27s+Album+-+WRETCH&rft.genre=unknown&rft.pub=Wretch.cc&rft_id=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.wretch.cc%2Falbum%2Fshow.php%3Fi%3DFRLT1800%26b%3D37%26f%3D1609185922%26p%3D1&rft_val_fmt=info%3Aofi%2Ffmt%3Akev%3Amtx%3Abook" class="Z3988"><SPAN style="display:none;"> </SPAN></SPAN></SPAN></LI>
<LI id="cite_note-41"><SPAN class="mw-cite-backlink"><B><A href="#cite_ref-41"><SPAN class="cite-accessibility-label">Jump up </SPAN>^</A></B></SPAN> <SPAN class="reference-text"><CITE class="citation web"><A rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://www.wretch.cc/album/show.php?i=FRLT1800&b=37&f=1609185925&p=4">"Performance at"</A>. Wretch.cc<SPAN class="reference-accessdate">. Retrieved <SPAN class="nowrap">2012-04-04</SPAN></SPAN>.</CITE><SPAN title="ctx_ver=Z39.88-2004&rfr_id=info%3Asid%2Fen.wikipedia.org%3AThe+Ant+and+the+Grasshopper&rft.btitle=Performance+at&rft.genre=unknown&rft.pub=Wretch.cc&rft_id=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.wretch.cc%2Falbum%2Fshow.php%3Fi%3DFRLT1800%26b%3D37%26f%3D1609185925%26p%3D4&rft_val_fmt=info%3Aofi%2Ffmt%3Akev%3Amtx%3Abook" class="Z3988"><SPAN style="display:none;"> </SPAN></SPAN></SPAN></LI>
<LI id="cite_note-42"><SPAN class="mw-cite-backlink"><B><A href="#cite_ref-42"><SPAN class="cite-accessibility-label">Jump up </SPAN>^</A></B></SPAN> <SPAN class="reference-text"><A rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VqLqHshkPIk"><SPAN class="plainlinks">A performance</SPAN></A> on <A href="/wiki/YouTube" title="YouTube">YouTube</A></SPAN></LI>
<LI id="cite_note-43"><SPAN class="mw-cite-backlink"><B><A href="#cite_ref-43"><SPAN class="cite-accessibility-label">Jump up </SPAN>^</A></B></SPAN> <SPAN class="reference-text">Online <A rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://www.wretch.cc/album/show.php?i=FRLT1800&b=37&f=1609185926&p=5">Wretch.cc performance</A></SPAN></LI>
<LI id="cite_note-44"><SPAN class="mw-cite-backlink"><B><A href="#cite_ref-44"><SPAN class="cite-accessibility-label">Jump up </SPAN>^</A></B></SPAN> <SPAN class="reference-text"><A rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-5bNR5EeFWw">Video</A> on <A href="/wiki/YouTube" title="YouTube">YouTube</A></SPAN></LI>
<LI id="cite_note-45"><SPAN class="mw-cite-backlink"><B><A href="#cite_ref-45"><SPAN class="cite-accessibility-label">Jump up </SPAN>^</A></B></SPAN> <SPAN class="reference-text"><A rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://www.musimem.com/durufle-mm.htm">Musimem</A></SPAN></LI>
<LI id="cite_note-46"><SPAN class="mw-cite-backlink"><B><A href="#cite_ref-46"><SPAN class="cite-accessibility-label">Jump up </SPAN>^</A></B></SPAN> <SPAN class="reference-text"><A rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=umrJoNN2TvY#t=3m05s"><SPAN class="plainlinks">The choir enters at 3.05 in this performance</SPAN></A> on <A href="/wiki/YouTube" title="YouTube">YouTube</A></SPAN></LI>
<LI id="cite_note-47"><SPAN class="mw-cite-backlink"><B><A href="#cite_ref-47"><SPAN class="cite-accessibility-label">Jump up </SPAN>^</A></B></SPAN> <SPAN class="reference-text"><A rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SM0Lw5Kqk2c">Video</A> on <A href="/wiki/YouTube" title="YouTube">YouTube</A></SPAN></LI>
<LI id="cite_note-48"><SPAN class="mw-cite-backlink"><B><A href="#cite_ref-48"><SPAN class="cite-accessibility-label">Jump up </SPAN>^</A></B></SPAN> <SPAN class="reference-text"><A rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yxfLoxQ_nKA"><SPAN class="plainlinks">The music can be heard</SPAN></A> on <A href="/wiki/YouTube" title="YouTube">YouTube</A></SPAN></LI>
<LI id="cite_note-49"><SPAN class="mw-cite-backlink"><B><A href="#cite_ref-49"><SPAN class="cite-accessibility-label">Jump up </SPAN>^</A></B></SPAN> <SPAN class="reference-text"><A rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://download.pro.arte.tv/archives/fichiers/02063734.pdf">Arte TV archives</A></SPAN></LI>
<LI id="cite_note-50"><SPAN class="mw-cite-backlink"><B><A href="#cite_ref-50"><SPAN class="cite-accessibility-label">Jump up </SPAN>^</A></B></SPAN> <SPAN class="reference-text">Margaret Ross Griffel, <I>Operas in English: A Dictionary</I>, Plymouth UK 2013, <A rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://books.google.co.uk/books?id=Y8bQAwAAQBAJ&lpg=PA22&ots=ZjheQBnfUe&dq=Shawn%20Allen%2C%20%E2%80%9CThe%20Ant%20and%20the%20Grasshopper&pg=PA22#v=onepage&q=Shawn%20Allen,%20%E2%80%9CThe%20Ant%20and%20the%20Grasshopper&f=false">p.22</A></SPAN></LI>
<LI id="cite_note-51"><SPAN class="mw-cite-backlink"><B><A href="#cite_ref-51"><SPAN class="cite-accessibility-label">Jump up </SPAN>^</A></B></SPAN> <SPAN class="reference-text">The Russian original and an English translation by Lydia Razran Stone appear in <I>The Frogs who begged for a Tsar</I> (Russian Information Services USA, 2010), <A rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://ilearnrussian.com/site/index.php?option=com_virtuemart&page=shop.product_details&flypage=flypage_images-ht.tpl&product_id=119&Itemid=1&vmcchk=1&Itemid=1">available online</A></SPAN></LI>
<LI id="cite_note-52"><SPAN class="mw-cite-backlink"><B><A href="#cite_ref-52"><SPAN class="cite-accessibility-label">Jump up </SPAN>^</A></B></SPAN> <SPAN class="reference-text"><CITE class="citation web"><A rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://exhaustiveshostakovich.wordpress.com/2010/08/31/opus-4-two-fables-after-krylov-1922">"A commentary and short excerpt"</A>. Exhaustiveshostakovich.wordpress.com. 2010-08-31<SPAN class="reference-accessdate">. Retrieved <SPAN class="nowrap">2012-04-04</SPAN></SPAN>.</CITE><SPAN title="ctx_ver=Z39.88-2004&rfr_id=info%3Asid%2Fen.wikipedia.org%3AThe+Ant+and+the+Grasshopper&rft.btitle=A+commentary+and+short+excerpt&rft.date=2010-08-31&rft.genre=unknown&rft.pub=Exhaustiveshostakovich.wordpress.com&rft_id=http%3A%2F%2Fexhaustiveshostakovich.wordpress.com%2F2010%2F08%2F31%2Fopus-4-two-fables-after-krylov-1922&rft_val_fmt=info%3Aofi%2Ffmt%3Akev%3Amtx%3Abook" class="Z3988"><SPAN style="display:none;"> </SPAN></SPAN></SPAN></LI>
<LI id="cite_note-53"><SPAN class="mw-cite-backlink"><B><A href="#cite_ref-53"><SPAN class="cite-accessibility-label">Jump up </SPAN>^</A></B></SPAN> <SPAN class="reference-text"><A rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_KmE-HgPs8c"><SPAN class="plainlinks">Available</SPAN></A> on <A href="/wiki/YouTube" title="YouTube">YouTube</A></SPAN></LI>
<LI id="cite_note-54"><SPAN class="mw-cite-backlink"><B><A href="#cite_ref-54"><SPAN class="cite-accessibility-label">Jump up </SPAN>^</A></B></SPAN> <SPAN class="reference-text"><A rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Da2KJDbUKR4"><SPAN class="plainlinks">Available</SPAN></A> on <A href="/wiki/YouTube" title="YouTube">YouTube</A></SPAN></LI>
<LI id="cite_note-55"><SPAN class="mw-cite-backlink"><B><A href="#cite_ref-55"><SPAN class="cite-accessibility-label">Jump up </SPAN>^</A></B></SPAN> <SPAN class="reference-text"><CITE class="citation web"><A rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://www.alzand.com/pdfs/fables_complete.pdf">"The score"</A> <SPAN style="font-size:85%;">(PDF)</SPAN><SPAN class="reference-accessdate">. Retrieved <SPAN class="nowrap">2012-04-04</SPAN></SPAN>.</CITE><SPAN title="ctx_ver=Z39.88-2004&rfr_id=info%3Asid%2Fen.wikipedia.org%3AThe+Ant+and+the+Grasshopper&rft.btitle=The+score&rft.genre=unknown&rft_id=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.alzand.com%2Fpdfs%2Ffables_complete.pdf&rft_val_fmt=info%3Aofi%2Ffmt%3Akev%3Amtx%3Abook" class="Z3988"><SPAN style="display:none;"> </SPAN></SPAN></SPAN></LI>
<LI id="cite_note-56"><SPAN class="mw-cite-backlink"><B><A href="#cite_ref-56"><SPAN class="cite-accessibility-label">Jump up </SPAN>^</A></B></SPAN> <SPAN class="reference-text">The score is available on the <A rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://urresearch.rochester.edu/institutionalPublicationPublicView.action;jsessionid=30700D0F9F7E51EB09864FD05D437FB8?institutionalItemId=20901">Rochester University site</A></SPAN></LI>
<LI id="cite_note-57"><SPAN class="mw-cite-backlink"><B><A href="#cite_ref-57"><SPAN class="cite-accessibility-label">Jump up </SPAN>^</A></B></SPAN> <SPAN class="reference-text"><A rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kj_RuvKRRD0"><SPAN class="plainlinks">Aesop Project - VIII. The Fox & the Grapes - Lefteris Kordis Octet</SPAN></A> on <A href="/wiki/YouTube" title="YouTube">YouTube</A></SPAN></LI>
<LI id="cite_note-58"><SPAN class="mw-cite-backlink"><B><A href="#cite_ref-58"><SPAN class="cite-accessibility-label">Jump up </SPAN>^</A></B></SPAN> <SPAN class="reference-text"><CITE class="citation web"><A rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://www.dailymotion.com/video/xdl971_the-grasshopper-and-the-ant-lotte-r_creation">"View online"</A>. Dailymotion.com<SPAN class="reference-accessdate">. Retrieved <SPAN class="nowrap">2012-04-04</SPAN></SPAN>.</CITE><SPAN title="ctx_ver=Z39.88-2004&rfr_id=info%3Asid%2Fen.wikipedia.org%3AThe+Ant+and+the+Grasshopper&rft.btitle=View+online&rft.genre=unknown&rft.pub=Dailymotion.com&rft_id=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.dailymotion.com%2Fvideo%2Fxdl971_the-grasshopper-and-the-ant-lotte-r_creation&rft_val_fmt=info%3Aofi%2Ffmt%3Akev%3Amtx%3Abook" class="Z3988"><SPAN style="display:none;"> </SPAN></SPAN></SPAN></LI>
<LI id="cite_note-59"><SPAN class="mw-cite-backlink"><B><A href="#cite_ref-59"><SPAN class="cite-accessibility-label">Jump up </SPAN>^</A></B></SPAN> <SPAN class="reference-text"><A rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=v6j6mwWgZ6w"><SPAN class="plainlinks">Available on</SPAN></A> on <A href="/wiki/YouTube" title="YouTube">YouTube</A></SPAN></LI>
<LI id="cite_note-60"><SPAN class="mw-cite-backlink"><B><A href="#cite_ref-60"><SPAN class="cite-accessibility-label">Jump up </SPAN>^</A></B></SPAN> <SPAN class="reference-text">An English translation is available at <A rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://www.gutenberg.org/files/25357/25357-h/25357-h.htm#Page_2">Gutenberg</A></SPAN></LI>
<LI id="cite_note-61"><SPAN class="mw-cite-backlink"><B><A href="#cite_ref-61"><SPAN class="cite-accessibility-label">Jump up </SPAN>^</A></B></SPAN> <SPAN class="reference-text"><A rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UkF-h9cctIs"><SPAN class="plainlinks">Available on</SPAN></A> on <A href="/wiki/YouTube" title="YouTube">YouTube</A></SPAN></LI>
<LI id="cite_note-62"><SPAN class="mw-cite-backlink"><B><A href="#cite_ref-62"><SPAN class="cite-accessibility-label">Jump up </SPAN>^</A></B></SPAN> <SPAN class="reference-text">Temple sang the song in the film <A href="/wiki/Now_and_Forever_(1934_film)" title="Now and Forever (1934 film)">Now and Forever</A>. <A rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WHPWjaSCXTw"><SPAN class="plainlinks">Available on</SPAN></A> on <A href="/wiki/YouTube" title="YouTube">YouTube</A></SPAN></LI>
<LI id="cite_note-63"><SPAN class="mw-cite-backlink"><B><A href="#cite_ref-63"><SPAN class="cite-accessibility-label">Jump up </SPAN>^</A></B></SPAN> <SPAN class="reference-text"><CITE class="citation web"><A rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://www.lyricsdownload.com/temple-shirley-the-world-owes-me-a-living-lyrics.html">"Lyricsdownload.com"</A>. Lyricsdownload.com<SPAN class="reference-accessdate">. Retrieved <SPAN class="nowrap">2012-04-04</SPAN></SPAN>.</CITE><SPAN title="ctx_ver=Z39.88-2004&rfr_id=info%3Asid%2Fen.wikipedia.org%3AThe+Ant+and+the+Grasshopper&rft.btitle=Lyricsdownload.com&rft.genre=unknown&rft.pub=Lyricsdownload.com&rft_id=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.lyricsdownload.com%2Ftemple-shirley-the-world-owes-me-a-living-lyrics.html&rft_val_fmt=info%3Aofi%2Ffmt%3Akev%3Amtx%3Abook" class="Z3988"><SPAN style="display:none;"> </SPAN></SPAN></SPAN></LI>
<LI id="cite_note-64"><SPAN class="mw-cite-backlink"><B><A href="#cite_ref-64"><SPAN class="cite-accessibility-label">Jump up </SPAN>^</A></B></SPAN> <SPAN class="reference-text"><CITE class="citation web"><A rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://www.warroom.com/antgh.php">"Warroom.com"</A>. Warroom.com<SPAN class="reference-accessdate">. Retrieved <SPAN class="nowrap">2012-04-04</SPAN></SPAN>.</CITE><SPAN title="ctx_ver=Z39.88-2004&rfr_id=info%3Asid%2Fen.wikipedia.org%3AThe+Ant+and+the+Grasshopper&rft.btitle=Warroom.com&rft.genre=unknown&rft.pub=Warroom.com&rft_id=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.warroom.com%2Fantgh.php&rft_val_fmt=info%3Aofi%2Ffmt%3Akev%3Amtx%3Abook" class="Z3988"><SPAN style="display:none;"> </SPAN></SPAN></SPAN></LI>
<LI id="cite_note-65"><SPAN class="mw-cite-backlink"><B><A href="#cite_ref-65"><SPAN class="cite-accessibility-label">Jump up </SPAN>^</A></B></SPAN> <SPAN class="reference-text"><CITE class="citation web">Malkin, Michelle (2008-09-26). <A rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://michellemalkin.com/2008/09/26/the-ant-and-the-grasshopper-2008-edition/">"Michellemalkin.com"</A>. Michellemalkin.com<SPAN class="reference-accessdate">. Retrieved <SPAN class="nowrap">2012-04-04</SPAN></SPAN>.</CITE><SPAN title="ctx_ver=Z39.88-2004&rfr_id=info%3Asid%2Fen.wikipedia.org%3AThe+Ant+and+the+Grasshopper&rft.aufirst=Michelle&rft.aulast=Malkin&rft.btitle=Michellemalkin.com&rft.date=2008-09-26&rft.genre=unknown&rft.pub=Michellemalkin.com&rft_id=http%3A%2F%2Fmichellemalkin.com%2F2008%2F09%2F26%2Fthe-ant-and-the-grasshopper-2008-edition%2F&rft_val_fmt=info%3Aofi%2Ffmt%3Akev%3Amtx%3Abook" class="Z3988"><SPAN style="display:none;"> </SPAN></SPAN></SPAN></LI>
<LI id="cite_note-66"><SPAN class="mw-cite-backlink"><B><A href="#cite_ref-66"><SPAN class="cite-accessibility-label">Jump up </SPAN>^</A></B></SPAN> <SPAN class="reference-text"><CITE class="citation web">Devang Vibhakar (2009-03-05). <A rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://www.speakbindas.com/the-ant-and-the-grasshopper-story/">"The ant and the grasshopper story - Indian Version"</A>. Speakbindas.com<SPAN class="reference-accessdate">. Retrieved <SPAN class="nowrap">2012-04-04</SPAN></SPAN>.</CITE><SPAN title="ctx_ver=Z39.88-2004&rfr_id=info%3Asid%2Fen.wikipedia.org%3AThe+Ant+and+the+Grasshopper&rft.au=Devang+Vibhakar&rft.btitle=The+ant+and+the+grasshopper+story+-+Indian+Version&rft.date=2009-03-05&rft.genre=unknown&rft.pub=Speakbindas.com&rft_id=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.speakbindas.com%2Fthe-ant-and-the-grasshopper-story%2F&rft_val_fmt=info%3Aofi%2Ffmt%3Akev%3Amtx%3Abook" class="Z3988"><SPAN style="display:none;"> </SPAN></SPAN></SPAN></LI>
<LI id="cite_note-67"><SPAN class="mw-cite-backlink"><B><A href="#cite_ref-67"><SPAN class="cite-accessibility-label">Jump up </SPAN>^</A></B></SPAN> <SPAN class="reference-text">The original and its translation appears at <A rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://web.kyoto-inet.or.jp/people/tiakio/cicada/marie.html">Web.kyoto-inet.or.jp</A></SPAN></LI>
<LI id="cite_note-68"><SPAN class="mw-cite-backlink"><B><A href="#cite_ref-68"><SPAN class="cite-accessibility-label">Jump up </SPAN>^</A></B></SPAN> <SPAN class="reference-text"><CITE class="citation web"><A rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://aesopus.pbworks.com/w/page/1471542/abstemius094">"Hecatomythium, fable 94"</A>. Aesopus.pbworks.com<SPAN class="reference-accessdate">. Retrieved <SPAN class="nowrap">2012-04-04</SPAN></SPAN>.</CITE><SPAN title="ctx_ver=Z39.88-2004&rfr_id=info%3Asid%2Fen.wikipedia.org%3AThe+Ant+and+the+Grasshopper&rft.btitle=Hecatomythium%2C+fable+94&rft.genre=unknown&rft.pub=Aesopus.pbworks.com&rft_id=http%3A%2F%2Faesopus.pbworks.com%2Fw%2Fpage%2F1471542%2Fabstemius094&rft_val_fmt=info%3Aofi%2Ffmt%3Akev%3Amtx%3Abook" class="Z3988"><SPAN style="display:none;"> </SPAN></SPAN></SPAN></LI>
<LI id="cite_note-69"><SPAN class="mw-cite-backlink"><B><A href="#cite_ref-69"><SPAN class="cite-accessibility-label">Jump up </SPAN>^</A></B></SPAN> <SPAN class="reference-text"><CITE class="citation web"><A rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://mythfolklore.net/aesopica/bewick/63.htm">"Fable XVI"</A>. Mythfolklore.net<SPAN class="reference-accessdate">. Retrieved <SPAN class="nowrap">2012-04-04</SPAN></SPAN>.</CITE><SPAN title="ctx_ver=Z39.88-2004&rfr_id=info%3Asid%2Fen.wikipedia.org%3AThe+Ant+and+the+Grasshopper&rft.btitle=Fable+XVI&rft.genre=unknown&rft.pub=Mythfolklore.net&rft_id=http%3A%2F%2Fmythfolklore.net%2Faesopica%2Fbewick%2F63.htm&rft_val_fmt=info%3Aofi%2Ffmt%3Akev%3Amtx%3Abook" class="Z3988"><SPAN style="display:none;"> </SPAN></SPAN></SPAN></LI>
<LI id="cite_note-70"><SPAN class="mw-cite-backlink"><B><A href="#cite_ref-70"><SPAN class="cite-accessibility-label">Jump up </SPAN>^</A></B></SPAN> <SPAN class="reference-text">Fable XXVI, p.139-40, French text at <A rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://books.google.com/books?id=sZQTAAAAQAAJ&printsec=frontcover&dq=Pierre+Louis+Ginguen%C3%A9++fables&source=bl&ots=KM8lXhIaiV&sig=rFzdyMqqAOAlCIZ0I2HvXXNBbQY&hl=en&ei=eoEFTM6ACs7E-QbOwNikCg&sa=X&oi=book_result&ct=result&resnum=3&ved=0CBoQ6AEwAjgK#v=onepage&q&f=false">Google Books</A></SPAN></LI>
<LI id="cite_note-71"><SPAN class="mw-cite-backlink"><B><A href="#cite_ref-71"><SPAN class="cite-accessibility-label">Jump up </SPAN>^</A></B></SPAN> <SPAN class="reference-text">There are modern musical interpretations, including <A rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tDEdc3m73dI"><SPAN class="plainlinks">one by singer</SPAN></A> on <A href="/wiki/YouTube" title="YouTube">YouTube</A> <A href="/wiki/Mihai_Constantinescu" title="Mihai Constantinescu">Mihai Constantinescu</A> and <A rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UcpdA912-l4"><SPAN class="plainlinks">a hip hop version</SPAN></A> on <A href="/wiki/YouTube" title="YouTube">YouTube</A></SPAN></LI>
<LI id="cite_note-72"><SPAN class="mw-cite-backlink"><B><A href="#cite_ref-72"><SPAN class="cite-accessibility-label">Jump up </SPAN>^</A></B></SPAN> <SPAN class="reference-text"><CITE class="citation web"><A rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://sniff.numachi.com/pages/tiANTGRASS.html">"text"</A>. Sniff.numachi.com<SPAN class="reference-accessdate">. Retrieved <SPAN class="nowrap">2012-04-04</SPAN></SPAN>.</CITE><SPAN title="ctx_ver=Z39.88-2004&rfr_id=info%3Asid%2Fen.wikipedia.org%3AThe+Ant+and+the+Grasshopper&rft.btitle=text&rft.genre=unknown&rft.pub=Sniff.numachi.com&rft_id=http%3A%2F%2Fsniff.numachi.com%2Fpages%2FtiANTGRASS.html&rft_val_fmt=info%3Aofi%2Ffmt%3Akev%3Amtx%3Abook" class="Z3988"><SPAN style="display:none;"> </SPAN></SPAN></SPAN></LI>
<LI id="cite_note-73"><SPAN class="mw-cite-backlink"><B><A href="#cite_ref-73"><SPAN class="cite-accessibility-label">Jump up </SPAN>^</A></B></SPAN> <SPAN class="reference-text"><A href="/wiki/International_Standard_Book_Number" title="International Standard Book Number">ISBN</A> <A href="/wiki/Special:BookSources/978-3257007091" title="Special:BookSources/978-3257007091">978-3257007091</A></SPAN></LI>
<LI id="cite_note-74"><SPAN class="mw-cite-backlink"><B><A href="#cite_ref-74"><SPAN class="cite-accessibility-label">Jump up </SPAN>^</A></B></SPAN> <SPAN class="reference-text">There is a German language animation <A rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=n-Gh8AjFVTg"><SPAN class="plainlinks">Available on</SPAN></A> on <A href="/wiki/YouTube" title="YouTube">YouTube</A></SPAN></LI>
<LI id="cite_note-75"><SPAN class="mw-cite-backlink"><B><A href="#cite_ref-75"><SPAN class="cite-accessibility-label">Jump up </SPAN>^</A></B></SPAN> <SPAN class="reference-text">There is a reading and animation of the story <A rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IGwdwvkn0Cw"><SPAN class="plainlinks">available on</SPAN></A> on <A href="/wiki/YouTube" title="YouTube">YouTube</A></SPAN></LI>
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