Le Petit Français illustré, No. 120: Journal des Écoliers et des Écolières

Title

en_US Le Petit Français illustré, No. 120: Journal des Écoliers et des Écolières

en_US LPF 120

Description

en_US Language note: French

Contributor

en_US Colomb, Christophe Marie-Louis-Georges

Date

2020-01-23T17:38:56Z

2019-08

en_US 1902

Date Available

2020-01-23T17:38:56Z

Date Issued

en_US 1902

Abstract

en_US This twelve page leaflet magazine (7 1/2" x 10 3/4") along with another of its numbers was one of many pleasant surprises on this European trip. I found it at the last of the many bookstores I visited in the gallery on Rue de la Madeleine. The pleasant owner found these two issues. I enjoy the update on La Fontaine so much that I hunted on the web. I found about six of these colored cover illustrations, all apparently done between 1900 and 1902. I even found another issue that I was able to order online. This issue's illustration is "Les animaux malades de la peste." La Fontaine had the animals turning on the poor mule as scapegoat for all their crimes. In this playful adaptation, we see a monkey as the doctor giving animals shots. Christophe has fun with all the actions surrounding the central encounter with the hypodermic needle. Mice nurses carry in their sick comrade on a stretcher. Frightened young rabbits cling to their mother's skirts. Four crows in tophats look down from the top of the doctor's bookcase. A frog escapes with his arm bandaged up. An aproned stork assists. Is that a nurse snake beneath the ape doctor's feet?. A comment below reads "Not everyone died…." The verso of this cover has a discussion of the fable, signed by G.C. This issue is dated March 15, 1902.

Identifier

en_US 11677 (Access ID)

uri

http://hdl.handle.net/10504/125394

Language

en_US fre

Publisher

en_US Librairie Armand Colin

en_US Paris

Subject

Jean de La Fontaine See all items with this value