Etonnantes Histoires de Bêtes d'apres Monsieur de la Fontaine

Title

en_US Etonnantes Histoires de Bêtes d'apres Monsieur de la Fontaine

Description

en_US Language note: French

en_US Racontées et illustrées par Madame Y. Chandelon pour ses petits Amis des Enfants

Creator

en_US Chandelou, Y.

Contributor

en_US Chandelon, Y.

Date

2016-01-25T19:01:49Z

en_US 2001-07

en_US 1947

Date Available

2016-01-25T19:01:49Z

Date Issued

en_US 1947

Abstract

en_US Here is a truly unusual oversized book. Its formula for each of ten fables involves from ten to fourteen pages. On these there are several black-and-white full-page illustrations and many small one-color designs interwoven with a very clever prose text telling the story in much more detail than La Fontaine's fable offers. After we have made our way through those elements, we find La Fontaine's traditional verse fable. We become like the fox on the cover, poring over the book by night. Chanderon explains to her dear friends the infants that La Fontaine wrote for grandes personnes in their language, not for children. In the first story, e.g., we learn that the two pigeons grew up without a mother and found their father dead while they were young. For those few thoughts we have four different designs: two baby birds in bed, an older bird following a hearse, two young birds with sailor caps and outfits, and two tombstones showing Papa and Maman. Nicely done! The illustrations and designs are anything but literal representations; they suggest and evoke moments of the story. Rémon aptly describes them as highly personal. Chandelon's imagination is lively throughout, as when the characters in TMCM are named Lerat Deschamps and Lerat de Ville! Among the best illustrations are the furry cat on 26, the careless lamb sleeping on the river-bank on 36, the country mouse smoking his pipe at the end of TMCM (65), and the dancing reeds (98). The cicada here (104) is an old Bohemian, a professional singer. There is a T of C at the back.

Identifier

en_US 3911 (Access ID)

uri

http://hdl.handle.net/10504/79251

Language

en_US fre

Publisher

en_US Les Editions Leclercq

en_US Bruxelles

Subject

en_US PQ2605.H3324 E86 1947

en_US Jean de La Fontaine

en_US Title Page Scanned

Type

en_US Book, Whole