Homme, Le Bipede

Title

en_US Homme, Le Bipede

en_US Fables de La Fontaine a Colorier

en_US Var 1

Description

en_US Language note: French

en_US Textes Établis par Robert E. Llewellyn

Creator

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

Contributor

en_US Images de Jean Simard

Date

2016-01-25T19:53:35Z

en_US 2007-02

en_US 1943

Date Available

2016-01-25T19:53:35Z

Date Issued

en_US 1943

Abstract

en_US Here is one of a set of six coloring books from during the Second World War which I have been lucky enough to find. The book is in large format (slightly larger than 8 x 11¼) and contains three fables on 32 pages. Each fable takes nine or ten pages to tell the story in one-page segments, with a few lines of prose complementing a large black-and-white cartoon. Each fable then adds one page for La Fontaine's original verse text. The first story is TB. Mega runs up the tree when he encounters the bear, and the bear follows him and tries to climb the tree. MSA is next. Again, the characters are named. The format is the same. The telling is faithful to La Fontaine and therefore different from most of the tradition. Le Savetier et le Financier is well represented by the two contrasting busts on the very first page of the story. Here Godillot (not Gregoire) immediately digs a hole in the cellar for his new treasure. Why would we want a caveman and a dinosaur on the cover of this pamphlet? Perhaps the illustration is meant to echo the portrayal inside of the men who encounter the bear in the first story.

Identifier

en_US 6231 (Access ID)

uri

http://hdl.handle.net/10504/81591

Language

en_US fre

Publisher

en_US Les Éditions Variétés

en_US Montréal

Subject

en_US PZ24.2.L595 Hom 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