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Title
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Mes Fables 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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Charles Morellet
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Creator
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Joël
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Contributor
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Joël
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Date
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2016-01-25T19:55:07Z
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2007-07
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1956
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Date Available
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2016-01-25T19:55:07Z
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Date Issued
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1956
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Abstract
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This is a shorter book containing fifteen fables published in the same year as its source containing some one-hundred-and-thirty-one fables. This little volume has all the earmarks of a children's book but is not such, I believe. The Morellet touch is already here in the cover picture of a miller transporting an ass in a wheelbarrow that looks a bit like a baby-buggy. The final fable in fact makes that point. This miller invented the kids' car and the stroller! There is a T of C at the end. This is one of several books that I was able to get on French and German ebay while I lived in Mannheim. Here Morellet's first name is Charles and not just Ch. as in the self-published copy of the same year. Perhaps typical of Morellet is OR on 25. As the reed is boasting of its survival powers, a kid comes along and plucks it to make a toy. Survival, Morellet moralizes, does not require so much skill, but it certainly does not need either gifts of nature or talk. Or again, the dead laborer's sons go out and find the treasure -- in bills of 5000 (francs) that are no longer currency! Yes, work itself is a treasure, and avarice is always wrong (31). There are several nice, if not very challenging, full-page colored pictures: GA (8), TT (32), FM (44), and Le Chat et le Renard (52). The black-and-white illustrations are perhaps more challenging. Check particularly the first four. These are indeed Morellet's fables of La Fontaine. Is it not surprising that this volume would be published in the same year as the original?
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Identifier
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6551 (Access ID)
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Language
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fre
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Publisher
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Chantreau & Fils
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Nantes
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Subject
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PZ24.2.L3 Me 1956
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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