Greece issued a 1987 stamp set illustrating Aesop's fables, with one 130 drachma stamp showing a famous racing pair. Monaco marked the 350th anniversary of La Fontaine's birth in 1971 with a composite 50 centime stamp featuring the same fable. Which classic fable appears on both?

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The Tortoise and the Hare. Both Greece and Monaco depicted 'The Tortoise and the Hare' on postage stamps. Greece featured it in its 1987 Aesop's fables set, and Monaco included it in a composite 50 centime stamp marking the 350th anniversary of Jean de La Fontaine, who retold Aesop's fables in French verse.