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Title
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Homme, Le Bipede
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Fables de La Fontaine a Colorier
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Var 1
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Description
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Language note: French
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Textes Établis par Robert E. Llewellyn
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Creator
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La Fontaine, Jean de
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Contributor
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Images de Jean Simard
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Date
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2016-01-25T19:53:35Z
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2007-02
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1943
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Date Available
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2016-01-25T19:53:35Z
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Date Issued
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1943
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Abstract
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Here is one of a set of six coloring books from during the Second World War which I have been lucky enough to find. The book is in large format (slightly larger than 8 x 11¼) and contains three fables on 32 pages. Each fable takes nine or ten pages to tell the story in one-page segments, with a few lines of prose complementing a large black-and-white cartoon. Each fable then adds one page for La Fontaine's original verse text. The first story is TB. Mega runs up the tree when he encounters the bear, and the bear follows him and tries to climb the tree. MSA is next. Again, the characters are named. The format is the same. The telling is faithful to La Fontaine and therefore different from most of the tradition. Le Savetier et le Financier is well represented by the two contrasting busts on the very first page of the story. Here Godillot (not Gregoire) immediately digs a hole in the cellar for his new treasure. Why would we want a caveman and a dinosaur on the cover of this pamphlet? Perhaps the illustration is meant to echo the portrayal inside of the men who encounter the bear in the first story.
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Identifier
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6231 (Access ID)
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Language
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fre
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Publisher
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Les Éditions Variétés
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Montréal
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Subject
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PZ24.2.L595 Hom 1943
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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