Item
Fables de Florian
- Title
- en_US Fables de Florian
- Description
- en_US Language note: French
- en_US #864 of 1500 copies
- Florian
- Creator
- en_US Florian See all items with this value
- Contributor
- en_US Sabatier, Roland
- en_US Pomeau, René
- Date
- 2025-05-20T17:10:29Z
- 2024-10
- en_US 1994
- Date Available
- 2025-05-20T17:10:29Z
- Date Issued
- en_US 1994
- Abstract
- en_US I have known Sabatier's work, most often with his spouse, especially through the many illustrations associated with a series of postage stamps in 1995. Here he is in a book produced in Sceaux, which proudly proclaims on the inserted advertisement that Florian lived and died -- in 1794 -- in Sceaux. The monochrome illustrations start vigorously with a strong illustration of fable accompanying truth. Fables without an illustration of their own regularly have a pleasant design of a scene proper to their book. A touching illustration on 41 shows the axe-wielding gardener walking away from an anthropomorphised tree with nightingales in its limbs and his wife in its shade. "Le Roi Alphonse" on 71 has another telling illustration as the beggar says to the learned but not wise king who wants to see the moon with better telescopes "Look at your feet; there you will see men, men lacking bread." There are two fine illustrations on 93 and 95 for his well-known fable of the rabbit and teal, including the towing of the nest. Sabatier's last fuzzy tour de force is the full page "Charlatan" (113). There is an AI at the back. 125 pages. 5½" x 8¼".
- Identifier
- en_US 13639 (Access ID)
- Language
- en_US fre
- Publisher
- en_US Sceaux Communication Evénement
- en_US Sceaux, France
- Subject
- Florian See all items with this value
- Item sets
- Carlson Fable Collection Books