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Title
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Renard, le Goupil
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Fables de La Fontaine a Colorier
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Var 5
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Description
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Language note: French
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Textes établis par Robert E. Llewellyn
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Creator
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de La Fontaine, Jean
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Contributor
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Simard, Jean
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Date
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2016-01-25T19:53:36Z
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2007-02
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1943
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Date Available
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2016-01-25T19:53:36Z
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Date Issued
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1943
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Abstract
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Here is one of a set of six coloring books from during the Second World War which I have been lucky enough to find. The book is in large format (slightly larger than 8 x 11¼) and contains three fables on 32 pages. Each fable takes nine or ten pages to tell the story in one-page segments, with a few lines of prose complementing a large black-and-white cartoon. Each fable then adds one page for La Fontaine's original verse text. Goupil, I learn, is archaic for fox. The first story is Le Renard, le Loup et le Cheval. The cover picture of a fox painting a picture comes from this story, since the young fox here, Pancrace, would like to paint his wolf friend Arthur a picture of the marvel that he has just seen for the first time, namely a horse. The second story here is Le Renard, le Singe et les Animaux. This story has fun with a literal reading of the question Whom does the royal crown fit best? The monkey gets the crown by maneuvering through it. The last story is Le Renard et les Poulets d'Inde. This story talks about turkeys. As this version understands the fable, the fox catches the turkeys' attention and keeps it by doing a number of tricks and amusements. Sometimes the turkeys lean a little bit too far to see what he is doing beneath them, and then they lose their equilibrium and fall--and become his victim. La Fontaine says only that the birds were in the course of time bedazzled. Over-attention to danger leads one to fall a prey to it!
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Identifier
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6235 (Access ID)
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Language
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fre
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Publisher
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Les Éditions Variétés
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Montréal
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Subject
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PZ24.2.L595 Ren 1943
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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