Les plus belles fables de La Fontaine

Title

en_US Les plus belles fables de La Fontaine

Description

en_US Language note: French

en_US La Fontaine

Creator

en_US de La Fontaine, Jean See all items with this value

Contributor

en_US Rakham, Alexandre

Date

2016-01-25T19:29:11Z

en_US 2004-07

en_US 1988?

Date Available

2016-01-25T19:29:11Z

Date Issued

en_US 1988

Abstract

en_US This booklet has an unusual format, since it is 11½ across and about 8 high. Each of twenty fables has a two page spread combining four elements: a monochrome strip of designs including things like weather-vanes and geometric figures; a title; La Fontaine's text; and a very strong, dramatic multi-colored illustration of the fable. This last element frequently includes, humorously exaggerated, the key point in La Fontaine's fable. Thus the fox in FC plays a banjo; the frog in OF is attached to the kind of hand-pump one would use for a bicycle tire; the dog in DW offers a golden collar on a pillow as though it were a crown; the wolf in WL has knife and fork in hand; the crane in FS has a crumpled beak; the ass in L'Âne et le petit Chien is bringing a bouquet of roses, and the dog is biting his tail. The ant in GA, repeated on the cover, is a shapely woman in an ermine cape. Now that is an understanding of this fable that I had never considered! Does it not undercut the story in LM to have the lion in a metal cage and to allow the mouse to hold the key? There is a T of C at the front. The booklet has the look of a holiday gift, and a line on the bottom of the rear cover states Le Crédit Mutuel vous offre les plus belles Fables de La Fontaine. This booklet was worth waiting for!

Identifier

en_US 5167 (Access ID)

uri

http://hdl.handle.net/10504/80740

Language

en_US fre

Publisher

en_US Distributed by Le Crédit Mutuel

en_US France

Subject

en_US PZ24.2.L3 Ps 1988 See all items with this value

en_US Jean de La Fontaine See all items with this value

en_US Title Page Scanned See all items with this value

Type

en_US Book, Whole