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Title
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Le Petit Français illustré, No. 149: Journal des Écoliers et des Écolières
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LPF 149
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Description
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Language note: French
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Contributor
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Colomb, Christophe Marie-Louis-Georges
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Date
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2025-05-20T17:10:01Z
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2023-06
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1902
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Date Available
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2025-05-20T17:10:01Z
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Date Issued
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1902
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Abstract
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This issue's illustration is "The Rat Who Retired from the World." La Fontaine places this fat hermit enjoying retirement in a cheese that provides both food and shelter. The smug, professedly religious hermit rejects the pleading of his fellow rats to offer some modest alms to help in their cause at a desperate time for their Rat Republic. The religious retiree makes excuses and contents himself with offering a prayer for them. With that, he shuts his door. La Fontaine is clearly critical of this man's approach to life. Christophe places the hermit in religious garb in a well-stocked basement. At least five rats surround him as he holds his arms folded across his chest and weeps. Has Christophe abandoned the cheese-home but kept everything else? This issue is dated October 4, 1902.
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Identifier
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13389 (Access ID)
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Language
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fre
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Publisher
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Librairie Armand Colin
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Paris
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Subject
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Jean de La Fontaine