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Title
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La Fontaine: Cent Fables
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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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First edition
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Présentée par Pierre Daninos, Commentées par Claude Esteban
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Creator
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Daninos, Pierre
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Contributor
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Trémois, Pierre-Yves
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Date
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2016-01-25T16:50:28Z
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2000-09
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1963
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Date Available
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2016-01-25T16:50:28Z
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Date Issued
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1963
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Abstract
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This is a curious book. It puts around the fables a number of curious things. There are, e.g., a number of pointed, provocative little quotations about La Fontaine and his fables. There is Trémois' art, sometimes line drawings, but at other times colored illustrations. These are not neat little rectangles but rather designs that intrude into the text's territory. Among Trémois' better contributions I would list FS (39), Le loup plaidant contre le renard par-devant le singe (49), CW (68), Les deux perroquets, le roi et son fils (249), Le chat et les deux moineaux (274), and Le singe (the wife-beater, who reads a copy of this book, 294). There are several suitably daunting animal images including Rodilardus (92), Raminagrobis (182), and Bertrand (231). I am surprised to find an image of a frog devouring a mouse or rat as the illustration for FK (78). There are both a T of C and an AI at the back. Before that, on 297-315, there are comments one or two paragraphs in length on thirty-eight of the fables. Presumably these comments are from Esteban. This is a nicely conceived book. The outside of the spine has been lost. Because both copies have defects, I will keep them both in the collection.
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Identifier
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3735 (Access ID)
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Language
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fre
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Publisher
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Selection du Reader's Digest
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Paris
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Subject
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PQ1808.A3 D36 1963
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Jean de La Fontaine
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Title Page Scanned
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Type
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Book, Whole