Item
La Fourmi Charitable
- Title
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La Fourmi Charitable
- Description
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1907? "La Fourmi Charitable." Complete five card postcard series. Postmarked 1908. All sent to the members of the same family Capoulade in Nice. Paris: Croissant. Sazerac phot. $30 for the set of 5 from Bertrand Cocq, Calonne-Ricouart, France, Sept. '20.
The text of these cards starts as does La Fontaine in these beautifully colored cards. In this version, the ant offers the desperate grasshopper a hot soup. The grasshopper receives it gratefully, takes her hand, and takes off, as he must, for further adventures, "sur le grand route lointaine." Do I read the grasshopper's French correctly to say to the ant on the last card "La Fontaine missed your generosity"? - Date
- 1907?
- Source
- $30 for the set of 5 from Bertrand Cocq, Calonne-Ricouart, France, Sept. '20.
- Subject
- Cards See all items with this value
- Postcards See all items with this value
- Postcard Series See all items with this value
- The Grasshopper and the Ant See all items with this value
- Item sets
- Carlson Fable Collection




