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Title
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Fables Nouvelles
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Description
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This is a hardbound book (hard cover)
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Language note: French
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Eugénie et Laure Fiot
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Creator
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Fiot, Eugénie
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Date
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2016-01-25T16:15:25Z
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1996-01
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1858
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Date Available
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2016-01-25T16:15:25Z
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Date Issued
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1858
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Abstract
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I do not know when I have had more of an experience of watching a book fall apart before my eyes. This book began in poor condition, with its cover peeling. It proceeded to peel right off in a few weeks! Now, five months later, I finally have a chance to look up this pair of siblings in Fabulists French, and I find that they are not there. The book contains eight books of seventeen fables each and a ninth of sixteen fables. Their purpose is spelled out clearly in the preface: to accustom readers (young and old) to the ideas of order and work and to inspire sentiments of virtue, devotion, and humanity. I tried two fables. III 4 has a father teaching his boy what the Aesopic tradition might call the lesson of the filberts and III 5 has a fox and cat outraged over a wolf's devouring of a lamb, from which the fox turns to destroying a chicken and the cat a mouse.…
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Identifier
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2394 (Access ID)
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Language
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fre
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Publisher
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Librairie ecclésiastique, classique et élémentaire de Ch. Fouraut
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Paris
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Subject
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PQ2244.F76 F33 1858
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Fiot
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Title Page Scanned
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Type
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Book, Whole