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Title
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Fables de La Fontaine Illustrées par Poussin.
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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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Poussin, Gerald
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Date
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2016-01-25T16:18:44Z
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1997-05
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1996
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Date Available
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2016-01-25T16:18:44Z
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Date Issued
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1996
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Abstract
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One of the most busy and turbulent books I have seen lately. What a contrast with, say, the work of Philippe Mignon (1995)! Is this art in the style of Maus Magazine? Each of twenty-eight fables gets a full-page, splashy, bright, angular illustration in the style of contemporary naïve cartoon comic art. (Just about thirty fables seems to be the unspoken norm for contemporary French illustrated editions of La Fontaine). Some illustrations here I simply could not understand. Those I could understand were often fun. The best of them is MM (51), which pictures all the things she has lost streaming in a river milk out of her dropped jug. FC (7) manages to unite basketball and fondue with this fable! I never thought of the country mouse showing up driving a tractor (13). The monkey wears a saddle and stirrups on the dolphin (33). Peacocks throw tomatoes at the peacock-feathered jay as a bad rock singer (35). The little fish says to the fisherman (37): Eat me if you're on a diet, or buy a telescope so that you can see me on the plate! T of C at the end.
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Identifier
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9782881822582
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2663 (Access ID)
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Language
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fre
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Publisher
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Editions Zoe
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Carouge-Geneve
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Subject
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PQ1808.A1 1996b
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Jean de La Fontaine
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Type
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Book, Whole