The Frogs Who Desired a King
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The Frogs Who Desired a King is one of Aesop's Fables and numbered 44 in the Perry Index. Throughout its history, the story has been given a political application.
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In 1922, Russian-born animator Ladislas Starevich produced a stop-motion animated film based on the tale in Paris entitled Les Grenouilles qui demandent un roi (aka Frogland).
The final episode of the BBC series I, Claudius (1976) was titled "Old King Log". In it the aging emperor refers to himself as such, to the confusion of his advisors.
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