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Title
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As fábulas de La Fontaine de São Vicente de Fora/Les fables de La Fontaine du monastère de Saint-Vincent à Lisbonne
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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: Bilingual: Portuguese/French
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Original language: fre
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Herausgegeben von Werner Hirte
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Creator
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de La Fontaine, Jean
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Contributor
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Monastery of St. Vincent
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Martins, António Coimbra (Essayist)
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Date
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2016-01-25T19:54:05Z
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2007-07
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2001
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Date Available
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2016-01-25T19:54:05Z
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Date Issued
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2001
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Abstract
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I fell in love with this landscape-formatted book as soon as I saw it. I had not even known of the beautiful tile walls of the monastery that are pictured in photographs here. There are thirty-eight of these murals, as the closing T of C makes clear. For each we get the fable in Portuguese and French, a detail from the mural, and then a fuller picture of the mural's fable scene. I have several favorites here. Maybe a part of the pleasure is seeing Oudry so faithfully presented in the medium of blue-and-white ceramic tile. First of these is The Bear and the Lover of Gardens (43). Others include The Two Friends (77); The Two Goats (89); The Astronomer Who Fell into a Well (113): SS (117); and AD (173). There are several colored pictures of the monastery itself at the very front and the back before the T of C. Martins' introduction makes a point that Oudry's grand four-volume edition of La Fontaine came out in 1659, the year in which Pombal expelled the Jesuits. I would never have thought to put these two events together in time! This is a lovely book!
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Identifier
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9789727920389 (ed. portuguesa)
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6346 (Access ID)
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Language
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fre
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Publisher
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Gótica/Chandeigne
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Lisboa
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Subject
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NK4670.7.P82 L583 2001
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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