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Title
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3 Fables de Jean de la Fontaine
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Description
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Language note: French
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#17 of 90
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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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Lombardin, R.
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Date
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2025-05-20T17:09:58Z
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2023-06
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1939
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Date Available
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2025-05-20T17:09:58Z
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Date Issued
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1939
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Abstract
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Here is a really unusual piece. Since it is such an unusual ephemeral piece, I am particularly happy -- even at the great cost -- to include it in the collection. For such a careful work, apparently by a graduating student, this pamphlet of 6 pages bypasses what would have been helpful information. What I miss most is "Where?" The producing school is identified in French and Flemish. The name that the school in Abbey of La Cambre, Belgium, seems to have has changed slightly since then, and there is another school with a very similar name in Paris. The pamphlet's format is simple. After a title-page, there are three pairs of pages, each beginning La Fontaine's text on the left and concluding it with a strong black-and-white rectangle on the right. The first of these is the story of the wolf and the skinny dog. This unwise wolf does not eat the skinny dog while he can, but believes a promise that the dog will fatten up. The illustration focuses on a second dog, a hefty watchdog for whom the wolf would be no match. La Fontaine's last line: "This wolf did not yet know his business well." The second fable has a traveler encounter a satyr. The Satyr here is a fascinating visual figure looming over the rather dandy traveler and his overly articulated fingers. The third shows us the monkey and the cat who has fetched chestnuts, supposedly for them both. Is the cat here just now turning around from his painful labor? The last two pages offer colophons, one in French and one in Flemish. The pamphlet was a New Year gift of this school. What was New Year's Day like in Belgium in 1940? Not in Bodemann.
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Identifier
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13351 (Access ID)
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Language
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fre
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Publisher
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École nationale supérieure d'Architecture et des Arts Décoratifs/nationale hoogere school voor bouwkunst en sierkunsten
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Abbey of La Cambre, Belgium
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Subject
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Jean de La Fontaine