Jean de La Fontaine (July 8, 1621, Château-Thierry – April 13, 1695, Paris), called "John Well" in foreign manuals, is France's most famous poet. He spent quite some years in prison for revering a fancy colored single-horned but nonetheless invisible horse-like animal. His neighbour, Louis "Rabane" Quatorze, who claimed he believed in a mass of flying noodles had less problems: noodles are visible, and one can make them "fly" through the air.