2012 Les Fables de La Fontaine. Interpretées par Michel Galabru et Jean Topart. Frémeaux & Associés. Coffret 2 CDs.
The two CD's here offer 22 and 16 fables, respectively. These CD's may be the best representation of a great reading of these best known fables. Notice by the cover how many prizes these recordings have won! The booklet offers insightful critique but not texts of the fables presented. There are also plentiful Doré illustrations.
2011 Les Fables de La Fontaine. Raconté par Gérard Philipe et ses Amis. CD. MVS.
This disc largely repeats the 2010 disc of La Fontaine fables "Lue par Gérard Philipe et ses compères." That disc accompanied a book with illustrations by Bruno Vacaro, published by Le Chant Du Monde. Our listing of it is on this same webpage. The back cover of the present jewel case recognizes this earlier publication. Three selections from that earlier disc are here dropped out – UP, LS, and "The Bat and the Two Weasels" – and two are added at the end: MM and "The Lapdog and the Ass."
2004 Les Fables de La Fontaine. Isabelle Aboulker. Paris: Gallimard Jeunesse Musique.
"1 Livre + 1 CD Audio." This high-class CD comes inside the front-cover of a large-format book of the same name published by Gallimard Jeunesse in 2008. The book offers at its back a musical passage from each of the fifteen fables. The fables are rendered in highly complex music involving a number of instruments and several voices. This book and CD bring together a significant collection of songs, texts, facts, and art objects! The CD has imprinted on i
2003 Les Fables de La Fontaine. Racontées par Michel Galabru et Jean Topart. CD. Frémeaux & Associés. Unknown source..
This is the former of two CD's that are apparently identical in content with the two-CD set from the same firm in 2012, which one can find elsewhere on this page. This first disc has 22 fables, listed on the back of the packaging. As I mention there, these CD's may be the best representation of a great reading of these, some of the best known fables of La Fontaine. The packaging here displays many of the same notices of prizes these recordings have won! The booklet offers the very same critique texts by Jean-Pierre Collinet as the booklet nine years later, now newly formatted, as is the packaging of the discs. As there, one finds in the booklet plentiful Doré illustrations.
1990? Les Contes et les Fables: 20 cubes en bois. Fabriqué en France. St. Germain-en-Montagne, France. Jeujura. €20 from haribo-fr through Ebay, Jan., '22.
As with the set I found new at Bon Marche in 1999, there are here six cartoon pictures in 5x4 form in a sturdy wooden box. The packing again advertises "100% Fabrication en France." The pictures on each cube are again in a sequence; rotate all one turn and revolve all one turn, and you have a complete image. Twenty is a high number of blocks for a puzzle of this sort. There are three fables here: GA, FC, and TH. These images, perhaps from the 80's or 90's, do not replicate those in the later fable set. Watch out! The box's bottom has come unglued!
1895? Two cards and twelve additional slips -- plus several duplicates -- of thin paper (not cardboard) stock presenting La Fontaine's fables. One card, cropped, shows "L'Avare qui a perdu son Trésor" and advertises Haquet Chicory (HC) of Lille. The other shows "Le Loup devenu Berger" and advertises, on its verso only, Ed. Le Roy (ELR) of Bayeux, manufacturer of carriages. This latter card was printed by Leopold Verger of Paris. Two additional cards in St. Ouen for €10, June, '19, printed by Alice Picard without advertising, just the fable text on the verso. These two seem to have a different formatting for the fable title on the front of the card. The eight papers for $40 from Bertrand Cocq, Calonne-Ricouart, France, March, '01. HC for 45 Francs and ELR for 50 Francs from Annick Tilly, Clignancourt, August, respectively, of '99 and '01. Additional papers for €2 apiece at St. Ouen, August, '13. "Blind Man and Dog" for €5 from Bertrand Cocq, Sept., '20. GGE and "The Countryman and the Serpent" for €15 each from Albert von den Bosch, Jan., '23. One extra card of ""The Countryman and the Serpent" advertising A la Belle Jardiniere chicoree at C. Berliot in Lille for €1 from pier-mont through Ebay, Sept., '23.
The cards have the strongest images in this set. They are also my clue to the identity of the papers, which are otherwise unmarked. HC is a curiosity. The card's picture is colorful but sketchy. The witty commentator wears a wide-brimmed hat as he speaks to the kneeling miser. Across the top of the picture is "Demandez la Chicorée extra 'LA SANS RIVALE' chez tous les épiciers." The back is covered with print and a picture of the chicory jar. ELR shows in its "Le Loup devenu Berger" how primitive the image work is here. Its clouds look like they bear a human fingerprint. One of the eight papers repeats this scene, in the same scale but--as is true of all eight--with a slightly larger image area and no border. All the papers except "Le Loup devenu Berger" have a blank verso. The papers are just over 2½ by just under 4". ELR is the same size overall, while HC, cropped, is slightly smaller. Two of them are torn: DLS and "Le Laboureur et ses Enfants." See the same cards presented differently under "Alcide Picard" and, among chocolate and chicoree cards, "Maison Salmon." "Alph. Babotte" also belongs to this group of images.
1890? 11 French cards of La Fontaine fables, nine marked as coming from Léopold Verger & Cie in Paris. 2" x 3½". $30 from Bertrand Cocq, Calonne-Ricouart, France, March, '01."Death and the Woodman" for €5 at St. Ouen, June, '19. Ten further cards from Bertrand for $6 each, nine advertising H. Goyet in Tournon-sur-Rhone, while one advertises "Au Planteur de Caiffa," Sept., '20. Three cards advertising "Au Planteur de Sumatra" in Dijon. €1.10 each from mrpiece on Ebay, August, '23.
These small portrait-formatted cards run a brown framing stripe around a colored illustration. The stripe also frames a few lines from the fable below, sometimes proceeded by the fable's title and sometimes concluding with a reference to La Fontaine and the specific fable. Small italic black print at the top of the illustration gives its French title. Small numerals in the lower right or left may identify a series or a date (e.g., "2 12" and "& 10"). There is also a small signature "LV&C" on many cards. The cards are very similar to those in the set from Chocolat Grondard. Some scenes end up looking quite humorous, like the milkmaid with an elaborate urn on top of her head! The illustration for "The Battle of the Weasels and the Rats" is well done; it suggests the general battle, the holes, and those who could not enter them. Eight of the eleven cards advertise on the back Planteur de Caiffa, apparently a chain of grocery stores. Two advertise "A Saint-Pierre," which seems to sell clothes, hats, and even furniture. The last advertises Pastilles Lucan, which are good for rheumatism and throat problems.The last three bring our total to 25. May we start to ask how many cards there are in this series? They also provide a chance to notice the verso of these diverse cards.
1996? 32 colored woodcuts after watercolors by Henry LeMarié, engraved by hand by Jean Taricco. Printed on Velin de Rives in the studio of Editions d'Art Les Heures Claires in Paris. Beautifully mounted and presented in two elaborate boxes. Signed in pencil? €450 from Plazzart, Paris, Sept, '20.
I have found LeMarié's miniatures delightful since I first saw them. This set is gorgeously presented. They seem to reproduce the illustrations in LeMarié's edition of 1996, over which I have expressed my delight. I wanted to include LeMarié's "Cobbler and Banker" in the Joslyn exhibit, but the art is too small. As I learn more now, I wonder how this kind of colorful work can be done on woodblocks. How many passes does it take on the poor piece of paper? I see this set of prints as an excellent showpiece for the collection. Jean Taricco engraved some 2200 pieces of wood necessary for the reproduction of the aquarelles of Henry LeMarié. Apparently some 30 colors were applied.
1996? 32 colored woodcuts after watercolors by Henry LeMarié, engraved by hand by Jean Taricco. Printed on Velin de Rives in the studio of Editions d'Art Les Heures Claires in Paris. Beautifully mounted and presented in two elaborate boxes. Signed in pencil? €450 from Plazzart, Paris, Sept, '20.
I have found LeMarié's miniatures delightful since I first saw them. This set is gorgeously presented. They seem to reproduce the illustrations in LeMarié's edition of 1996, over which I have expressed my delight. I wanted to include LeMarié's "Cobbler and Banker" in the Joslyn exhibit, but the art is too small. As I learn more now, I wonder how this kind of colorful work can be done on woodblocks. How many passes does it take on the poor piece of paper? I see this set of prints as an excellent showpiece for the collection. Jean Taricco engraved some 2200 pieces of wood necessary for the reproduction of the aquarelles of Henry LeMarié. Apparently some 30 colors were applied.
1996? 32 colored woodcuts after watercolors by Henry LeMarié, engraved by hand by Jean Taricco. Printed on Velin de Rives in the studio of Editions d'Art Les Heures Claires in Paris. Beautifully mounted and presented in two elaborate boxes. Signed in pencil? €450 from Plazzart, Paris, Sept, '20.
I have found LeMarié's miniatures delightful since I first saw them. This set is gorgeously presented. They seem to reproduce the illustrations in LeMarié's edition of 1996, over which I have expressed my delight. I wanted to include LeMarié's "Cobbler and Banker" in the Joslyn exhibit, but the art is too small. As I learn more now, I wonder how this kind of colorful work can be done on woodblocks. How many passes does it take on the poor piece of paper? I see this set of prints as an excellent showpiece for the collection. Jean Taricco engraved some 2200 pieces of wood necessary for the reproduction of the aquarelles of Henry LeMarié. Apparently some 30 colors were applied.
