Franc-Nohain: Fables

Title

en_US Franc-Nohain: Fables

en_US Collection Mazarine

Description

en_US Language note: French

en_US #205 of 1000

en_US Franc-Nohain

Creator

en_US Franc-Nohain See all items with this value

Contributor

en_US Monier, Henri

Date

2016-01-25T20:03:54Z

en_US 192009-08

en_US 1945

Date Available

2016-01-25T20:03:54Z

Date Issued

en_US 1945

Abstract

en_US The great thing about this book, I would say, is the hand-colored illustrations. There are some sixty fables on 144 pages. Unfortunately, none of the fables featured here are in Shapiro's Fabulists French, and these texts are, I fear, beyond me. Each of the fables has a multi-colored illustration before and after the text. (Only a few fables near the end seem to lack an endpiece.) Some, like The Goat Who Had Himself Shaved in American Fashion (8), have several illustrations around the text. I was going to write that June 30, 1945, would have been quite a time to be in Paris; then I found the little Nazi marching as an endpiece on 24. Again on 115, is that an Allied soldier chasing a German soldier? For sheer loveliness of color, enjoy The Nightingale and the Parrot on 32. One picture after another is simply delightful. Shapiro mentions that Franc-Nohain brings all sorts of creatures into the fable world of Industrial Revolutionization. There is a T of C at the end. Some pages are uncut. I am delighted to have found this book!

Identifier

en_US 7140 (Access ID)

uri

http://hdl.handle.net/10504/82417

Language

en_US fre

Publisher

en_US Gründ

en_US Paris

Subject

en_US PQ2623.E415 F23 1945 See all items with this value

en_US Franc-Nohain See all items with this value

en_US Title Page Scanned See all items with this value

Type

en_US Book, Whole