Fables de La Fontaine Interprétées par Coco Lulu
Loading...
Authors
Lefèvre, Coco Lulu Victor
Issue Date
1898
Volume
Issue
Type
Book, Whole
Language
Keywords
Alternative Title
Abstract
"A listing on the web helped with information on this unusual little paperback volume of 88 pages: "Fables de La Fontaine dans la langue populaire du quartier de Marolles (Bruxelles). Coco Lulu est le pseudonyme de Victor Lefèvre (1822-1904). Illustrations n/b de Paul Wellens sont différentes de celles de l'Edition Librairie Vanderlinden." I tried several of the fables and find them faithful to La Fontaine. They seem to add linguistic turns and topical references from Brussels to the basic verse of La Fontaine. The six full-page black-and-white illustrations are clear and sometimes bold: "The Angler" (9); CJ (19); OF (27); TMCM (39); "The Villager and the Serpent" (77); and GA (81). TMCM may be best: the cat looms while the two mice enjoy cheese and mugs of beer. Two advertisements from the publisher for fable books are inserted, one of them for this very book. There is a T of C at the end. As the other dealer's note suggests, do not confuse the illustrations by Wellens here with his from another edition at about the same time. That other edition comes from Librairie Vanderlinden. I will take Bodemann's word for it that this booklet was published in 1898, though it looks to me like something from the 1930's."
Description
Citation
Publisher
H. Wellens & W. Godenne, Imprimeurs-Éditeurs
License
Journal
Volume
Issue
PubMed ID
DOI
Identifier
10830 (Access ID)