Les Fables de Jean de la Futaille

Title

en_US Les Fables de Jean de la Futaille

Description

en_US Language note: French

Commentées par Gabriel Macé

Creator

en_US Macé, Gabriel See all items with this value

Contributor

en_US France

Date

2025-05-20T17:10:09Z

2023-09

en_US 1967

Date Available

2025-05-20T17:10:09Z

Date Issued

en_US 1967

Abstract

en_US The cover's title is actually "Le Canard de poche vous présente Les Fables de Jean de la Futaille." This paperback of 144 pages is apparently a special double-number from October-November of 1967 of the magazine "Le Canard enchainé," a satirical magazine that has been published regularly since 1915. "Canard" means variously "duck," "a demeaning trick," "a newspaper," or, perhaps more familiarly, "a hoax" or "a fabrication." There is of course plenty of slang operative here in the book's fables. These are organized under six headings in the final T of C. I picked three fables for closer inspection."Le Renard et le Corbeau" (23); "Le Ratichon de ville et le Ratichon des champs" (29); and "La Mouche et le Coche" 53). The first has the crow persuading the fox to drop a coin into the collection trunk at his tree. "Ratichon" is pejorative slang for a priest. The fly involved in the third fable is a tse-tse fly. When he has accomplished all his hard work, apparently everybody falls asleep! The accompanying designs help this reader. I bet that they have delighted many!

Identifier

en_US 13474 (Access ID)

uri

https://cdr.creighton.edu/handle/10504/157838

Language

en_US fre

Publisher

en_US Le Canard enchaîné

en_US Paris

Subject

Parody of Jean de La Fontaine See all items with this value