Editing Apologue (section)

==In literature==
[[Antoine Houdar de la Motte|La Motte]], writing at a time when this species of literature was universally admired, attributes its popularity to the fact that it manages and flatters [[amour-propre]] by inculcating virtue in an amusing manner without seeming to dictate or insist. This was the ordinary 18th-century view of the matter, but [[Rousseau]] contested the educational value of instruction given in this indirect form.<ref name="EB1911"/>

A work by P. Soullé, ''La Fontaine et ses devanciers'' (1866), is a history of the apologue from the earliest times until its final triumph in France.<ref name="EB1911"/>

[[Charles de Secondat, Baron de Montesquieu|Montesquieu]] wrote a propos his ''[[Persian Letters]]'' "There are certain truths of which it is not enough to persuade, but which must be made to be ''felt''.  Such are the moral verities. Perhaps a bit of history will be more touching than subtle philosophy."{{Citation needed|date=September 2017}}

[[André Alexis]]' ''[[Fifteen Dogs|Fifteen Dogs: an Apologue]]'', an extended [[prosimetrum|prosimetric]] example of apologue, was published in 2015, notably winning that year's [[Giller Prize]] and subsequently earning Alexis the [[ Windham-Campbell Literature Prize]].<ref>{{cite journal|journal=[[Canadian Literature (journal)|Canadian Literature]]|volume=225|issue=Summer 2015|pages=159–161|last=Ridington|first=Robin|title=Reading André Alexis' ''Fifteen Dogs: An Apologue''.}}</ref>