Chanticleer and the Fox the question of its origin. It has also been asserted that the tale has developed out of the basic situation in Aesop's fable of The Fox and the Crow. Early examples of the story are pithily fabular but towards the middle of the 12th century it appears as an extended episode of the "Reynard cycle" under the title "How Renart captured Chanticleer the cock" ("Si comme Renart prist Chanticler le Coq"). The work of which it was part was immensely popular and spread widely in translation. The basic situation concerns the cock Chanticleer, who lives with his three wives in
Reynard the Fox children's story, written by the Dutch-Belgian Robert van Genechten, and named after the Middle Dutch poem. It was first published in 1937 in "Nieuw-Nederland", a monthly publication of the Dutch Nazi Party's front, the NSB. In 1941 it was published as a book. The story features a rhinoceros called Jodocus, somewhat akin to the Dutch word "jood" ("jew"); and a donkey, Boudewijn, who occupies the throne. "Boudewijn" was the Dutch name for the contemporary real-world Belgian crown prince. In the story, Jodocus is an outsider who comes to the Empire and subsequently introduces new ideas that drastically alter the natural