Fables Nouvelles a l'usage de la Jeunesse

Title

en_US Fables Nouvelles a l'usage de la Jeunesse

Description

en_US This is a hardbound book (hard cover)

en_US Language note: French

en_US Original language: mul

en_US Par A.D.

Creator

en_US Durand, A. See all items with this value

Date

2016-01-25T19:54:50Z

en_US 2007-07

en_US 1821

Date Available

2016-01-25T19:54:50Z

Date Issued

en_US 1821

Abstract

en_US The title-page goes on: Contenant des principes de Morale propres à diriger son jugement et à régler sa conduite, Précédées des Règles de l'Apologue. There is no help to be found for situating this volume from either Bodemann, since it is not illustrated, nor Shapiro, since its fables are in prose. I have tried the first three and they are clear and clearly moral. In case the lessons might not be clear, there is a moral before the fable. A cat steals from the cook, is barely spared by the merciful master of the house, is put into a cage, gets out again and seems to have learned his lesson. While everyone sings his praises, he steals something else in the kitchen and runs out of the house. A monkey has a nut in one hand and a stone in the other. He asks passers-by whether what he holds is good or bad -- and then confounds the answerer with the hand denying the answer. A fox answers: You show me what you have, and I will pronounce whether it is good or bad. Beavers are downing a tree, and a parakeet mocks them for doing so with such tiny teeth against a big tree. He comes back three days later, and the tree is down. I did not go further with my reading. There is a T of C at the back. This volume contains four books of fables, with twenty-five fables in each book.

Identifier

en_US 6493 (Access ID)

uri

http://hdl.handle.net/10504/81816

Language

en_US fre

Publisher

en_US Chez Durand, père et fils, Libraires

en_US Grenoble

Subject

en_US PN984 .F34 1821 See all items with this value

en_US A.D. See all items with this value

Type

en_US Book, Whole