FRENCH LANGUAGE The Jean de La Fontaine Museum in Château-Thierry preserves a collection of 60 Fables illustrated in Attock (nowadays Pakistani city of Punjab, not far from Rawalpindi and Peshawar) between 1837 and 1839, by the painter Imam Bakhsh Lahori, at the instigation of Baron Félix de Conches (1798 -1887). Having held the posts of Introducer of Ambassadors and Head of Protocol at the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, he was able to build up collections of 19th century English and French paintings, the history of civilisations, and Near Eastern and Asian arts. He was a fervent admirer of
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