Fables de La Fontaine Interprétées par Coco Lulu

Title

en_US Fables de La Fontaine Interprétées par Coco Lulu

Description

en_US Language note: French

Coco Lulu (Victor Lefèvre)

Creator

en_US Lefèvre, Coco Lulu Victor

Contributor

en_US Wellens, Paul

Date

2020-01-23T17:38:57Z

2019-07

en_US 1898

Date Available

2020-01-23T17:38:57Z

Date Issued

en_US 1898

Abstract

en_US Here is a wonderful curiosity. Among several inexpensive books I found at Evasion in Brussels in a lucky morning of fable-book-hunting, I found this small paperbound volume. I took it for a duplicate of something we already had, bought from Zubal in July of 2015, but it was so inexpensive that I bought it. Now I have tracked down the copy we already had. They are not the same, especially since this book is published by Librairie Vanderlinden and not by " H. Wellens & W. Godenne, Imprimeurs-Éditeurs." I noticed that the pagination is exactly the same, as one can see in the closing T of C of each book, even though those T of C pages have been newly typeset. Here is another surprise: Paul Wellens is the illustrator in both, but the illustrations are different! Contrast OF in Wellens & Godenne (27) with OF here (27). Both have the same structure but they are clearly differently executed. I see now that my comments on the other edition already took note of this difference in Wellens' illustrations. "Fables de La Fontaine dans la langue populaire du quartier de Marolles (Bruxelles). Coco Lulu est le pseudonyme de Victor Lefèvre (1822-1904). Illustrations n/b de Paul Wellens sont différentes de celles de l'Edition Librairie Vanderlinden." As I wrote then, I tried several of the fables and find them faithful to La Fontaine. They seem to add linguistic turns and topical references from Brussels to the basic verse of La Fontaine. I took Bodemann's word for it that this booklet was published in 1898, though it looks to me like something from the 1930's. I believe they both come from that era. The Bodemann category for both is #378.1. This edition, which I take to be later – even though they both present the same 1898 preface – has thicker paper.

Identifier

en_US 11683 (Access ID)

uri

http://hdl.handle.net/10504/125400

Language

en_US fre

Publisher

en_US Librairie Vanderlinden

en_US Brussels

Subject

en_US PQ2337.L2F3 1898b

Jean de La Fontaine

en_US Title Page Scanned