Fables: Quand la Sagesse Vint aux Ânes

Title

en_US Fables: Quand la Sagesse Vint aux Ânes

Description

en_US Language note: French

Pierre Ruaud

Creator

en_US Ruaud, Pierre See all items with this value

Contributor

en_US Wauters, Julia

Date

2020-01-23T17:38:59Z

2019-06

en_US 2015

Date Available

2020-01-23T17:38:59Z

Date Issued

en_US 2015

Abstract

en_US There are thirteen fables on 31 pages in this tall (8½" x 12¾") book, as the beginning T of C shows. This book has an unusual feature: colored-background half-pages give the rhyming verse of each fable. Facing each text then is its multi-colored, dramatic full-page illustration. Thus the first fable, "Le Chien et le Chat," has the head of a donkey presented between cat and dog, each in a balancing scale suspended from the ears of the donkey. The donkey holds a judge's gavel in his mouth. The wise donkey judges that each of these bickering competitors must name four qualities of the other at the next sunrise. They do, and he wisely judges that they complement each other, since one wards off thieves and the other mice. Once one recognizes the qualities of our rivals, we can no longer detest them. The second fable is "Le Corbeau et le Renard qui Connaissait la Fable." This fox has to figure out new ways to fool crows! The title fable (19) has two donkeys tied to each other at a rest period learning to eat together out of first one and then the other's feed – instead of straining against each other and getting nothing. Thus wisdom comes to these two asses, though it often does not come to humans! Later (20) two cocks compete by waking the farmer up earlier and earlier. He ends their competition by serving them a great meal.

Identifier

en_US 11700 (Access ID)

uri

http://hdl.handle.net/10504/125413

Language

en_US fre

Publisher

en_US Éditions amaterra

en_US Lyon

Subject

en_US Ovr. PZ24.2.R83Fab 2015 See all items with this value

Pierre Ruaud See all items with this value

en_US Title Page Scanned See all items with this value