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Title
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Fables de La Fontaine III
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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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Lorioux, Félix
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Date
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2016-01-25T19:50:38Z
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2006-10
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1958
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Date Available
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2016-01-25T19:50:38Z
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Date Issued
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1958
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Abstract
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This book offers two fables from Lorioux' larger-format and larger-volume book of the same title by the same publisher in 1949--WL and L'Huitre et le Plaideurs. It adds four others: Le Cochet, le Chat et le Souriceau; Le Coche et la Mouche; Les Poissons et le Cormoran; and Le Lièvre et les Grenouilles. Like its companion volume I, which I have, the book presents six fables, with a single dramatic colored image for each. In three of the new cases he adds a black-and-white image. The lovely title-page illustration repeats the title-page illustration from 1949 and from the companion volume in 1958: a stork reads a La Fontaine book to a lively assortment of listening animals. Like Volume I, this book has a final black-and-white image on the last page: Mother Stork heads home after reading to the assembled animals. In the 1949 book, that final illustration is colored. The front cover shows frogs leaping into the water as the rabbit approaches; the back cover shows a sinister cormorant and his mouthpiece, the crayfish. I find the illustrations here particularly well executed for Le Coche et la Mouche and L'Huitre et le Plaideurs. These images in the later Lorioux, by contrast with his 1921 Hachette edition, show a new sense of texture, derived perhaps from someone like Dufy, and a great sense of play in the little frogs, fish, and birds around the central figures. Now I need to find the II in the series!
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Identifier
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6119 (Access ID)
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Language
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fre
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Publisher
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Marcus
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Paris
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Subject
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PZ24.2.L3 Fab 1958c
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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