This offset lithograph by Marcel Broodthaers playfully interrogates the relationship between memory, language, and cultural heritage through its reference to Jean de La Fontaine, the 17th-century French fabulist. The work exemplifies Broodthaers's conceptual practice of combining text and image to create semantic ambiguity, inviting viewers to consider how memory functions and how literary traditions persist in contemporary consciousness. As an edition in his larger series, this colored lithograph on wove paper reflects the artist's characteristic use of printmaking to democratize and question the authority of canonical texts and artistic representation.