Mes Fables de La Fontaine

Title

en_US Mes Fables de La Fontaine

Description

en_US This is a hardbound book (hard cover)

en_US Language note: French

en_US Charles Morellet

Creator

en_US Joël See all items with this value

Contributor

en_US Joël

Date

2016-01-25T19:55:07Z

en_US 2007-07

en_US 1956

Date Available

2016-01-25T19:55:07Z

Date Issued

en_US 1956

Abstract

en_US This is a shorter book containing fifteen fables published in the same year as its source containing some one-hundred-and-thirty-one fables. This little volume has all the earmarks of a children's book but is not such, I believe. The Morellet touch is already here in the cover picture of a miller transporting an ass in a wheelbarrow that looks a bit like a baby-buggy. The final fable in fact makes that point. This miller invented the kids' car and the stroller! There is a T of C at the end. This is one of several books that I was able to get on French and German ebay while I lived in Mannheim. Here Morellet's first name is Charles and not just Ch. as in the self-published copy of the same year. Perhaps typical of Morellet is OR on 25. As the reed is boasting of its survival powers, a kid comes along and plucks it to make a toy. Survival, Morellet moralizes, does not require so much skill, but it certainly does not need either gifts of nature or talk. Or again, the dead laborer's sons go out and find the treasure -- in bills of 5000 (francs) that are no longer currency! Yes, work itself is a treasure, and avarice is always wrong (31). There are several nice, if not very challenging, full-page colored pictures: GA (8), TT (32), FM (44), and Le Chat et le Renard (52). The black-and-white illustrations are perhaps more challenging. Check particularly the first four. These are indeed Morellet's fables of La Fontaine. Is it not surprising that this volume would be published in the same year as the original?

Identifier

en_US 6551 (Access ID)

uri

http://hdl.handle.net/10504/81873

Language

en_US fre

Publisher

en_US Chantreau & Fils

en_US Nantes

Subject

en_US PZ24.2.L3 Me 1956 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