Perrete with a dog

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Perrete with a dog

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1905? Set of ten photographic postcards of "Perrette." All addressed to Mademoiselle Hebert in Rouen and Veules-les-Roses. $40 from Bertrand Cocq, Calonne-Ricouart, France, Sept., '20.

The cards are postmarked in 1906. The approach to the story known perhaps best through LaFontaine's fable is slightly different, especially as it involves a dog. 1. This Perrette is thinking as she goes about her dear old father. 2. She stops in the woods to put down the heavy pot. 3. It even seems a good idea to take a nap in the heat; she can catch up afterward. 4. Perrette dreams of the profits and their purchases, including clothes and jewels. 5. She wakes to find she has been joined by a dog. 6. She shares her lunch with her new friend. 7. Ah, but when you eat you must drink. The dog seems to point to the pot as the answer to her need. 8. Oh, my, that will lessen the value of this pot of milk. 9. In the meantime, the pot breaks. What bad luck! 10. Perrette and the dog pray together for God to restore the pot. One surprise is that there are some stamps for five centimes and some for ten. The text is attributed to C.M. I cannot find "C.M." online. Here is another example of using a simple photographic background and photographic postcards of children to offer a variant on a well-known La Fontaine fable.

Date

1905?

Source

$40 from Bertrand Cocq, Calonne-Ricouart, France, Sept., '20.

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