1890? 1 French full-color card using a young girl to depict La Fontaine's MM. 3" x 4 3/8". The fable title is at a 45° angle in the lower left corner. "A la Samaritaine" is on the picture side and, along with the fable's text on the verso of the card, there identified as "Magasin de la Samaritaine."
This card's picture is exactly that on one of the cards from "A la Place Clichy." The text on the verso seems exactly the same, but it is put higher on the card, with two sets of information about "A la Samaritaine" at a 90 degree angle to it. Apparently the store sells novelties in Paris.
1890? 4 French full-color cards using children to depict various of La Fontaine's fables. 3" x 4 3/8". Each fable title is at a 45° angle in the lower left corner. "A la Place Clichy" is on the picture side and, along with the fable's text, the verso of each card.
These are lovely cards. Each puts children into a landscape. Perhaps the finest is BF, which puts a rather rotund little fellow in military regalia in front of a mirror. By contrast, I am not sure if the world of children fits for portraying the stealing of a donkey! Though all four cards announce "A la Place Clichy" at the top of the picture side, BF and "Les Poissons et le Berger" speak then of an address on the Boulevard des Batignolles as well as three numbered addresses in the Rue d'Amsterdam. MM and "Les Voleurs et l'Ane" speak simply of the "Rue d'Amsterdam et Rue St. Pétersbourg" without giving any number addresses.
