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Title
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Le Meunier, son Fils et l'Ane
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éditions du chat perché
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Description
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This is a hardbound book (hard cover)
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Language note: French
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Jean de La Fontaine
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Creator
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La Fontaine, Jean de
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Contributor
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Bourre, Martine
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Date
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2017-05-15T20:33:56Z
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2016-10
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1978
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Date Available
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2017-05-15T20:33:56Z
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Date Issued
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1978
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Abstract
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I am coming to appreciate more and more La Fontaine's version of MSA. It loses the crescendo of other versions that finish with the most ridiculous effort: carrying the ass to market. Here the strategy, I think,of the poet is to make each effort a lunge in some direction, not in an ordered rise of ridiculousness. The last attempt turns out to be the most natural -- walkilng behind the ass -- and it still gets ridiculed. So La Fontaine's point is that, whatever we do, people will talk. Let them! The artist suggests nicely that this lazy ass liked being carried -- another shift from the more traditional version -- and so tookit ill that he had to carry someone. Soon he had to carry two! A clever illustration shows on 12 that the young man had to help his father get up onto the ass. The ass also turns to admire a butterly on 18. Good fun all the way around!
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Identifier
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11117 (Access ID)
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Language
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fre
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Publisher
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Flammarion
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Paris
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Subject
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Jean de La Fontaine
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Type
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Book, Whole