La Fontaine: Fables

Title

en_US La Fontaine: Fables

en_US Les Classiques Françaises

Description

en_US This is a hardbound book (hard cover)

en_US La Fontaine

Creator

en_US de La Fontaine, Jean See all items with this value

Date

2016-01-25T19:54:23Z

en_US 2007-10

en_US 1943

Date Available

2016-01-25T19:54:23Z

Date Issued

en_US 1943

Abstract

en_US Here is a curious little book which I happened to pick up because I wanted the books with which it was joined on eBay. It is a standard pair of French paperback volumes bound together in a leather cover, offering the first and last six books, respectively, of La Fontaine's fables. There is a lexicon, AI, and TofC at the back of either volume. A portrait of La Fontaine and a picture of his home are the books' only ornamentation. The surprise comes in that this was a wartime production done by a press in Cairo for a society in Beirut. The press in Cairo is the Imprimerie de l'Institut Français d'Archéologie Orientale. Fables get around and persist even in hard times! The French will have their La Fontaine, even when wars are going on. At one euro, the price was right.

Identifier

en_US 6402 (Access ID)

uri

http://hdl.handle.net/10504/81727

Language

en_US fre

Publisher

en_US La Societé d'Éditions Les Lettres Françaises

en_US Beirut

Subject

en_US PQ1807 .A1 1943 See all items with this value

en_US Jean de La Fontaine See all items with this value

en_US Title Page Scanned See all items with this value

Type

en_US Book, Whole