la fontaine in English
noun
family name; Jean de La Fontaine (1621-1695), French poet, author of "Aesop's Fables"; Henri La Fontaine (1854-1943), Belgian statesman and jurist, the 1913 Nobel peace prize winner; town in Indiana (USA)
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1. It was founded in 1907 under the name Central Office of International Associations by Henri La Fontaine, the 1913 Nobel Peace Prize laureate, and Paul Otlet, a founding father of what is now called information science.