Item
Le Petit Français illustré, No. 149: Journal des Écoliers et des Écolières
- Title
- en_US Le Petit Français illustré, No. 149: Journal des Écoliers et des Écolières
- en_US LPF 149
- Description
- en_US Language note: French
- Contributor
- en_US Colomb, Christophe Marie-Louis-Georges
- Date
- 2025-05-20T17:10:01Z
- 2023-06
- en_US 1902
- Date Available
- 2025-05-20T17:10:01Z
- Date Issued
- en_US 1902
- Abstract
- en_US This issue's illustration is "The Rat Who Retired from the World." La Fontaine places this fat hermit enjoying retirement in a cheese that provides both food and shelter. The smug, professedly religious hermit rejects the pleading of his fellow rats to offer some modest alms to help in their cause at a desperate time for their Rat Republic. The religious retiree makes excuses and contents himself with offering a prayer for them. With that, he shuts his door. La Fontaine is clearly critical of this man's approach to life. Christophe places the hermit in religious garb in a well-stocked basement. At least five rats surround him as he holds his arms folded across his chest and weeps. Has Christophe abandoned the cheese-home but kept everything else? This issue is dated October 4, 1902.
- Identifier
- en_US 13389 (Access ID)
- Language
- en_US fre
- Publisher
- en_US Librairie Armand Colin
- en_US Paris
- Subject
- Jean de La Fontaine See all items with this value
- Item sets
- Carlson Fable Collection Books