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Title
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Jean de La Fontaine: Les Fables illustrées par Gabriel Lefebvre
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Collection Jeunesse
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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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LaFontaine
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Creator
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de La Fontaine, Jean
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Contributor
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Lefebvre, Gabriel
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Date
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2016-01-25T19:38:10Z
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2005-01
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2003
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Date Available
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2016-01-25T19:38:10Z
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Date Issued
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2003
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Abstract
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I have been in love with Lefebvre's work since his two volumes of La Fontaine's fables done for Casterman in 1986. When I saw this work almost twenty years later, I presumed that it was a reprint in different format of the same illustrations. Now I think that these are new illustrations, and they are delightful! There are fifty-one fables on 141 pages, as the closing AI shows. Each fable gets either a two-page or a four-page spread, with either one or two pages for text and the same for illustration. Text and illustration remain separate. Among the strongest of the illustrations are WL (18); FS (24); CW (40); The Wolves and the Sheep (54 and 55); The Lion in Love (63); FM (71 and 73); The Eagle and the Owl (92); TT (133 and 134); and The Cat and the Two Sparrows (137 and 138). The preoccupation with presenting two eyes for every creature seems to be gone from Lefebvre's art. The new identifying mark is the presence of a kind of colored confetti around an animal that is experiencing something strong, like having been kicked in the head! Lefebvre has a wonderful sense of color. This is a particularly heavy book.
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Identifier
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9782804607920
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5409 (Access ID)
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Language
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fre
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Publisher
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La Renaissance du Livre
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Tournai, Belgium
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Subject
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PZ24.2.L3 Jean 2003
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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