Labyrinte de Versailles 1677

Title

en_US Labyrinte de Versailles 1677

en_US Le Temps des jardins

Description

en_US This is a hardbound book (hard cover)

en_US Language note: French

en_US Présenté par Charles Perrault

Creator

en_US Conan, Michel See all items with this value

Contributor

en_US le Clerc, Sébastien

en_US Conan, Michel (Afterward)

Date

2016-01-25T20:20:33Z

en_US 2012-07

en_US 1982

Date Available

2016-01-25T20:20:33Z

Date Issued

en_US 1677

Abstract

en_US This is perhaps the sixth book I have found presenting the Labyrinthe at Versailles. I continue to be fascinated and somewhat confused by the subject. My confusion here arises from a book I just catalogued: Contes et Fables: Texte Integral, a contemporary work including what seem to be Perrault's labyrinth fables. Each of these includes a prose summary and a verse moral, which is almost always amatory in character. Now I go back to this facsimile of Perrault's 1677 work and find the prose summaries, separate from the illustrations, but I find none of the verse morals about love. There is a verse moral with each fable here, but it seems different and not focussed particularly on love. In the early part of this book, the prose rendition of each fable is followed by a description of the fountain scene presented in the Labyrinth. The rendering of LeClerc's plates is adequate. The Labyrinth, the back cover tells us, was destroyed in 1774. The postface by Michel Conan includes nine illustrations, listed just after the postface.

Identifier

en_US 8642 (Access ID)

uri

http://hdl.handle.net/10504/83868

Language

en_US fre

Publisher

en_US Editions du Moniteur

en_US Paris

Subject

en_US PQ1877.L3 1982 See all items with this value

en_US Aesop See all items with this value

en_US Title Page Scanned See all items with this value

Type

en_US Book, Whole