Item
Le Nouvel Esope: Fables Choisies
- Title
- en_US Le Nouvel Esope: Fables Choisies
- Description
- en_US Language note: French
- en_US François Ricard
- Creator
- en_US No Author See all items with this value
- Date
- 2016-01-25T19:50:32Z
- en_US 2002-08
- en_US 1749
- Date Available
- 2016-01-25T19:50:32Z
- Date Issued
- en_US 1749
- Abstract
- en_US Twenty-six rhyming verse fables on 52 pages. Marbled paper covers. No introductory or concluding material other than a colophon on the last page indicating various permissions and a registration. There are printer's decorations on the title-page and first page, and the first initial is done dramatically. The accent in the title apparently belongs on the nouvel. These are new fables after the fashion of Aesop. In the first fable, L'Aigle et le Pie, the eagle ends up killing the magpie prophet who predicted bad things for the eagle but long life for the magpie. Do not anger the powerful! The second fable has a humble swan refuting the proud claims of the peacock to be the most beautiful. We all have some points of beauty but lack others. So it goes, through fables featuring respectively two books, a monkey and a fox, and love and absence. It is wonderful to have an older book like this in the collection, but these fables so far do not excite my interest. One of the fables here, Le Mouton, et le Loup, appears in The Fabulists French (74) as the work of Delaunay, though the work referred to there is Recueil de Fables from 1732. Delaunay died in 1751. Le Mouton, et le Loup, Shapiro rightly comments, is typical of the conventional wisdom found in many another animal fable…. Delaunay seems to have written several theatrical pieces using fables. Might this book be a collection of some of those fables that first appeared in his plays?
- Identifier
- en_US 6101 (Access ID)
- Language
- en_US fre
- Publisher
- en_US Chez la Veuve Delormel et Fils
- en_US Paris
- Subject
- en_US PA3855.F7 1749 See all items with this value
- en_US Aesop See all items with this value
- Type
- en_US Book, Whole
- Item sets
- Carlson Fable Collection Books