Le lion amoureux, The Lion in Love. Scene from the fables of La Fontaine: a lion falls in love with a peasant's daughter and asks the father's permission to marry her. Unwilling to refuse outright, the man sets the condition that the animal should first have its claws clipped and its teeth filed.

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