Item
Messire le Lion
- Title
- en_US Messire le Lion
- en_US Fables de La Fontaine a Colorier
- en_US Var 3
- Description
- en_US Language note: French
- en_US Textes établis par Robert E. Llewellyn
- Creator
- en_US de La Fontaine, Jean See all items with this value
- Contributor
- en_US Simard, Jean
- Date
- 2016-01-25T19:53:35Z
- en_US 2007-02
- en_US 1943
- Date Available
- 2016-01-25T19:53:35Z
- Date Issued
- en_US 1943
- Abstract
- en_US Here is one of a set of six coloring books from during the Second World War which I have been lucky enough to find. The book is in large format (slightly larger than 8 x 11¼) and contains three fables on 32 pages. Each fable takes nine or ten pages to tell the story in one-page segments, with a few lines of prose complementing a large black-and-white cartoon. Each fable then adds one page for La Fontaine's original verse text. Messire, I just learned, is archaic for My Lord. The first story is Le Lion s'en Allant en Guerre. The best visual presentation here, I would say, is the fox dressing up in a sheepskin. It is a surprise to me that the rabbits are couriers here by riding horses. Are they not fast enough on their own? The second story is Le Lion et l'Âne Chassant. I think that there is still some of this fable's meaning that escapes me. The final story here is Le Lion Devenu Vieux.
- Identifier
- en_US 6233 (Access ID)
- Language
- en_US fre
- Publisher
- en_US Les Éditions Variétés
- en_US Montréal
- Subject
- en_US PZ24.2.L595 Mes 1943 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
- Item sets
- Carlson Fable Collection Books