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Title
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en_US
Fables de La Fontaine
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Bibliothéque Rouge et Or, Souveraine
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Description
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This is a hardbound book (hard cover)
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This book has a dust jacket (book cover)
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Language note: French
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LaFontaine
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Creator
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de La Fontaine, Jean
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Contributor
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Auger, Raoul
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Date
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2016-01-25T19:28:12Z
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2004-03
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1956?
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Date Available
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2016-01-25T19:28:12Z
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Date Issued
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1949
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Abstract
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This book seems intermediate between my 1949 and 1962 versions. Its 1956 date comes from the dust jacket, lacking in either of the other two copies. It adds a crown design saying Bibliotheque rouge et or Souveraine on the title-page. Let me repeat my comments from those listings. Bodemann 466.1. The special feature of this book of one hundred and five fables is the full-page photolithographs by Auger. I find sixteen in all, including a good frontispiece (5) of La Fontaine and the animals and a good last page of GGE (192). Three others strike me as very good: TT (13); Le Chat, la Belette et le petit Lapin (121); and Le Vieillard & ses Enfants (185). I find the style typical of 50's art: Disneyesque, spirited, sentimental, and colorful. There is a touch of Dufy here. Bodemann, who seems to find only fifteen full-page colored illustrations, is not as positive as I am about this art. Let me quote some of Bodemann's assessment: Die ganzseitigen Darstellungen bilderbuchhaft: Protagonisten meist in voller Bildhoehe mit ein oder zwei detailliert beschriebenen, groesseren Gegenstaenden als Kulissen in Szenen mit zirkusaehnlicher Wirkung; Tiere mit uebertrieben-schelmischer, naiver Mimik in Bewegungsmomenten (Lauf, Sprung o. ae.), Menschen ueberdimensional schmal oder breit, mit nervoeser Mimik und Gestik und emotionsbestimmter Haltung.
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Identifier
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4938 (Access ID)
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Language
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fre
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Publisher
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Editions G.P.
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Paris
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Subject
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PQ1808 .A1 1949d
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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