Fables Choisies de M. Jauffret, Tradutes en Vers Latins (Spine: Selectae Fabulae), Vol. II

Title

en_US Fables Choisies de M. Jauffret, Tradutes en Vers Latins (Spine: Selectae Fabulae), Vol. II

Description

en_US This is a hardbound book (hard cover)

en_US Language note: Bilingual: Latin/French

en_US Louis-François Jauffret; Translated by Adolphe Jaufret

Creator

en_US No Author

Contributor

en_US Beisson

Date

2016-01-25T15:38:36Z

en_US 2014-08

en_US 1828

Date Available

2016-01-25T15:38:36Z

Date Issued

en_US 1828

Abstract

en_US The title-page continues: Avec le Texte en Regard; Suivies de Diverses Poésies Latines. The pair of volumes, of which this is Volume II, are a genuine curiosity. Louis-François Jauffret was editor of a volume of Florian's fables in 1801 and in 1815 he published his own volume of ten books of French fables. Bodemann (#225) speaks of these fables in the 1815 volume as Insgesamt 200 gereimte Versfabeln, Neuerfindungen mit Stoffanleihen bei verschiedenen Fabeldichtern. This collection has the second edition of that book, published in 1826. In this present pair of volumes, thirteen years after the first edition and two years after the second, his son, apparently a professor of law, publishes five books of his father's fables with Latin translations on facing pages. Picard had this unusual find to start a great Parisian weekend for me. As Picard notes, there are four full-page lithographs by Beisson in the two volumes, two of them as frontispieces. Here L'Ours et l'Ane serves as frontispiece, and Venus et la Colombe appears with its fable facing 54. As a sample, I read L'Ours et l'Ane. A bear facing death after years of reigning honorably is confronted by an ass, who recalls a tawdry chapter in the bear's history. The ass alleges that the bear was once a street entertainer. The bear denies it, imprisons him, and threatens death. What did I do? asks the ass. Courtiers tell him that powerful people do not like to have their unseemly past deeds recalled. The Varia Carmina section taking up 92 pages at the end of this volume consists of a mixture, as the closing T of C for this volume indicates, of six French poems presented bilingually and a number of Latin poems. Should one presume that the latter are by Jauffret fils?

Identifier

en_US 10232 (Access ID)

uri

http://hdl.handle.net/10504/76220

Publisher

en_US Chez A. Delalain

en_US Paris

Subject

en_US Louis-François Jauffret

en_US Title Page Scanned

Type

en_US Book, Whole