Fables d'Esope en Quatraines dont Il y en a une Partie au Labyrinthe de Versailles

Title

en_US Fables d'Esope en Quatraines dont Il y en a une Partie au Labyrinthe de Versailles

Description

en_US Language note: French

en_US Isaac Benserade

Creator

en_US Aesop

Contributor

en_US le Sueur I, Pierre

Date

2016-01-25T20:00:32Z

en_US 2010-09

en_US 2010

Date Available

2016-01-25T20:00:32Z

Date Issued

en_US 1678

Abstract

en_US One learns from Wikipedia that André Le Nôtre initially planned a maze of unadorned paths in 1665, but in 1669, Charles Perrault advised Louis XIV to include thirty-nine hydraulic fountains each representing one of the fables of Aesop. The work was carried out between 1672 and 1677. In 1675 the poet Isaac de Benserade provided the quatrains accompanying each fountain. Here Benserade adds enough fable quatrains to make a total of 221, the additional ones following the pattern he had set with the 1675 fountain quatrains. A number of the quatrains here are marked Versailles; apparently those are the very ones used in the labyrinth. The publisher of this original book is the same that published Perrault's book on the labyrinth a year earlier. Though this copy, like most on-demand reprints, suffers from inexact xeroxing, the cameos are surprisingly detailed and quite pleasing. Take as a sample Fable LXXII on 73. The quatrain is simple and clear. The cameo presents the characters, a serpent and a hedgehog, clearly and has them face each other, as they may well have done during their spirited dialog! As Metzner notes in his Bodemann description, the quatrain often serves as a title for the cameo. I have three books from the labyrinth tradition: Labyrinte de Versailles (1683?) by Perrault, with Sébastian Le Clerc as illustrator and Nicolaus Visscher as publisher; Labyrinte de Versailles (1690?) by Johann Ulrich Krauss, reproduced in a contemporary version by Helmut Eisendle; and Aesop at Court (1768) by Bellamy, with Bickham as an illustrator and W. Faden as publisher.

Identifier

en_US 1104747243

en_US 7083 (Access ID)

uri

http://hdl.handle.net/10504/82360

Language

en_US fre

Publisher

en_US Sebastien Mabre-Cramoisy/Kessinger Publishing

en_US Paris

Subject

en_US PQ1715 .F7 2010

en_US Aesop

en_US Title Page Scanned

Type

en_US Book, Whole