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Title
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Fables: Jean de La Fontaine
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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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La Fontaine
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Creator
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de La Fontaine, Jean
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Contributor
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Aubrun, Christian
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Date
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2016-01-25T19:38:05Z
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2005-01
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2004
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Date Available
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2016-01-25T19:38:05Z
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Date Issued
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2004
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Abstract
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The T of C at the end of this large-format book gives the context perfectly. As it shows, there are twenty-seven of La Fontaine's fables here, each illustrated by a different contemporary person. At the bottom of the second page of the T of C is an image of La Fontaine lying out on the grass composing a fable while two butterflies hover about. The book usually gives two facing pages to each fable; occasionally one fable receives four pages. On the left page are a title, a text, and some small designs around the text, while the right-hand page is a full-page illustration. These latter are deeply different from one another! I don't think I have seen The Small Fish and the Fisherman done as dramatically as this (10-11)! TMCM is done in a very different style: they are in a wine-drinking scene worthy of Paris. Things are all in their scale, including wine bottles, glasses, and forks. What does not fit the perspective are the boots and legs that loom over them (33). Like so many French illustrators, Muriel Kerba has a good time presenting Monsieur je sais tout as the teacher who lectures the drowning boy (41). My special prize goes to Quentin Gréban for his illustration of the shoemaker sitting on top of his locked chest with a musket-like rifle in hand (55). Other fine illustrations include WL (12-13); Le chat, la belette, et le petite lapin (20-23); TMCM (32-33); and Le coche et la mouche (34-35).
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Identifier
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5391 (Access ID)
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Language
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fre
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Publisher
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Éd. Lito
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Champigny-sur-Marne
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Subject
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PZ24.2.L3 Fab 2004
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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