Six fables en timbres: Timbres émis pour le tricentennaire de la mort de Jean de La Fontaine

Title

en_US Six fables en timbres: Timbres émis pour le tricentennaire de la mort de Jean de La Fontaine

Description

en_US Language note: French

en_US La Poste

Creator

en_US La Fontaine, Jean de

Contributor

en_US Claudine and Roland Sabatier

Date

2016-01-25T19:50:27Z

en_US 2006-12

en_US 1995

Date Available

2016-01-25T19:50:27Z

Date Issued

en_US 1995

Abstract

en_US This sixteen-page pamphlet seems to have been issued at the same time as the stamps commemorating the three hundredth anniversary of Jean de la Fontaine's death. Each of six pages contains a clever little transparent holder holding the appropriate stamp for one of six fables. On the same page as the stamp is La Fontaine's text. Facing the page is a full-page reproduction of the stamp itself. I scanned these pages for future use. Before these six pairs of pages presenting stamps and fables, there are three introductory pages. The first has a preface, surrounding which is the only original piece of art in the booklet, a three-sided frame presenting faces of the characters found on the stamps. The verso presents the first of two non-stamp vignettes issued with the stamps, namely a portrait of La Fontaine. One lovely feature of this portrait is that his neck-kerchief opens out to become the curtain of a small theater, with the town and country mice playing upon the stage. This page gives the basic dates and events of La Fontaine's life. Facing it is a Sommaire or T of C, accompanied by the second vignette, a list of the six fables presented on the stamps: GA, OF, WL, FC, Le Chat, la Belette et le petit Lapin, and TH. The second-to-last fable has a longer text; its stamp-illustration is thus reduced to less than full-page size to accommodate the extra text. More on other materials issued along with the stamps can be found at http://aesop.creighton.edu/jcupub/1995FrenchStampsLaF.htm.

Identifier

en_US 9782950925718

en_US 6083 (Access ID)

uri

http://hdl.handle.net/10504/81490

Language

en_US fre

Publisher

en_US La Poste

en_US Paris

Subject

en_US PQ1808 .A1 1995g

en_US Jean de la Fontaine

en_US Title Page Scanned

Type

en_US Book, Whole