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Title
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Choix de Fables de La Fontaine précédé d'une notice sur sa vie, suivie de petits Dialogues propres à faire sentir aux Enfants les Beautés de l'apologue
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Description
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Language note: French
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3me edition
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J.-C. Jumel; Jean de la Fontaine
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Creator
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Jumel, J.C.
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Date
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2022-11-07T16:11:43Z
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2021-06
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1825
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Date Available
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2022-11-07T16:11:43Z
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Date Issued
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1825
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Abstract
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The frontispiece here has La Fontaine contemplating on the grounds of Versailles. The title-page illustration is of the schoolmaster lecturing the drowning child. This schoolmaster looks an awful lot like a Jesuit! He is wearing a soutane! There are four further intercalated pages, each offering two illustrations: 28, 63, 90, and 118. Maybe the best of these is 63, featuring MM and “The Cobbler and the Financier.” There is a lovely confusion: the pre-title-page has this as the third edition in 1825. The following proper title-page makes it out to be the fourth edition in 1824! Does Eymery’s calendar go backwards? Overall, there are 81 fables on 144 pages, followed by, first, “Philemon and Baucis”; secondly, six dialogues on the “beauties” of some of La Fontaine’s fables; thirdly, an essay on how to recite fables; and, fourthly, a comprehensive T of C. About 3¼” x 5”. Not in Bodemann. Our educational system would not be so focused today on reciting fables!
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Identifier
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12575 (Access ID)
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Language
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fre
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Publisher
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Librairie d'Education & de Jurisprudence d'Alexis Eymery
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Paris
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Subject
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Jean de La Fontaine