Fables complètes

Title

en_US Fables complètes

Description

en_US Language note: French

Virgile du Pourquoi Pas?

Creator

en_US Virgile du Pourquoi Pas? See all items with this value

Date

2020-01-23T17:38:53Z

2019-08

en_US 2010

Date Available

2020-01-23T17:38:53Z

Date Issued

en_US 2010

Abstract

en_US This paperback is apparently a re-issue of a hardbound book of the same title by the same publisher in 2001. Virgile, Léon Crabbé, died at the age of about eighty in 1970, having written, apparently, hundreds of columns – especially in the column "Pourquoi Pas?" -- and having made many recordings. Many see him. as does his friend Jean Francis, as the the ideal manifestation of the spirit of Brussels. Here we have seventeen of his redoings of La Fontaine's fables and then about twenty-four of his "fables personnelles." These are followed by "the fables of Suske le Brugeois, Noel Barcy." This is yet another pseudonym for the author. These again take up La Fontaine as models, but they seem to add some mockery of Brugians' confusion with French articles, masculine and feminine. They also play more drastically with the endings of La Fontaine's fables. A last section offers the originals of La Fontaine's fables developed in this book. This book was sitting at my door as I returned to my room after my first breakfast at St. Michel Jesuit high school in Brussels. The author had been mentioned at breakfast. I value the book as a wonderful gift! Footnotes and a Brussels vocabulary help! The cover presents a crow perched on a tall building looking down with cheese in his beak at a waiting fox. Jean Francis: "Si vous voulez vous ouvrir le coeur de Bruxelles, je ne vois guère d'autre clé."

Identifier

en_US 11659 (Access ID)

uri

http://hdl.handle.net/10504/125376

Language

en_US fre

Publisher

en_US Racine

en_US Brussels

Subject

en_US PQ2605.R33F33 2010 See all items with this value

Virgile (Léon Crabbé) See all items with this value

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