1920? Postcard presenting La Fontaine's WC text beside a colored illustration. A. Storck & Co. Deposé. €6 from ABC de la C.P.A., Lyon, at the Paris Post Card Exhibition, Jan., '05.
The illustration here may be somewhat simple and disappointing, but the border around it is very clever. Its top is formed by two storks' heads (no pun with the publisher!) holding bones in their beaks. Follow down either side, and you will find the stork's legs. Are those perhaps bones lying on the contract at the lower right of the frame? The writer of this card put a message onto its picture side.
1920? Postcard presenting La Fontaine's "Le Laboureur et Ses Enfants" text beside a colored illustration. Confiserie Roussier, Sarret & Cie., Grenoble. A. Storck & Co. Deposé. €9 from Dominique Chapelon, Yronde ete Buron, at the Paris Post Card Exhibition, Jan., '05.
The card is arranged in this case to allow for an advertising strip at its top. Again, it pays to watch the frame of the rather standard picture of the man and his children at his bedside. Arranged around the picture we find wheat, grapes, vines, and finally a bag of coins. Roussier and Sarret add another design on the blue verso. A female figure of abundance pours out candy for eager children to enjoy. This design is so nice that I include it here.
1920? Postcard presenting La Fontaine's FS text beside a colored illustration. A. Storck & Co. Deposé. €6 from ABC de la C.P.A., Lyon, at the Paris Post Card Exhibition, Jan., '05.
The illustration here is unusual in that it has the stork standing on top of the table holding the meal. The elongation of the image helps to reinforce the point of the fable. The fox's legs seem to have become quite human in their pose. The frame of the image includes heads of both principal figures. This card is stamped "Offert par le Grand Bazar de l'Hotel de Ville, Lyon-Terreaux." I guess you could use the card to write home about the glories of this hotel.
1920? Postcard presenting La Fontaine's FC text beside a colored illustration. A. Storck & Co. Deposé. 50 Francs from Annick Tilly, Clignancourt, July, '01.
This card is like another illustrated here, the parody of FC that I have guessed was published around 1932, in that it uses all of one side for an address and takes up almost all of the other side for its illustration and image. The illustration in this case dresses the fox as a gentleman and gives him eyeglasses on a cord. The figure of the crow looms as large as the figure of the fox. There is no writing at all on this card.
