<P> In the 20th century, Le Renard et la Cigogne figured in the series of medals illustrating La Fontaine's fables cast by Jean Vernon (1940) and Marc Chagall made it Plate 9 in his etchings of them (1952). Among European musical settings was one by Louis Lacombe (op . 72, 1875). Later it appeared as the first piece in Andre Asriel's 6 Fabeln nach Aesop (1972). In 1995 it was among the seven in Catalan translation that the composer Xavier Benguerel i Godó set for recitation with orchestral accompaniment . </P> <P> The fable has also appeared on postage stamps illustrating La Fontaine's fables . These include the 35 franc air mail stamp issued by Dahomey in 1995 to commemorate the tricentenary of his death, the 170 forint stamp issued as part of a set by Hungary in 1960, and a Monaco commemoration of the 350th anniversary of the fabulist's birth . </P>

The fable of the stork and the fox