La Fontaine et Les Fabulistes, Vol. II
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1888
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This second volume came out some six years after the first. Since we are dealing here with a nouvelle édition of an existing work, I wonder what curious history lies behind the delay. This second volume, by contrast with the first, has a T of C at the back. The first three chapters (14 through 17, with their numbering continuing on from the first volume) deal with subjects in the fables of La Fontaine: the picture of human life; the destiny of man and of the diverse professions; and the censure of society and of the individual. Chapter 17 deals with Rousseau's judgement of La Fontaine, while Chapters 18 and 19 treat of La Fontaine as a philosopher and his view of the soul of animals. Chapter 20 asks if the condition of animals is above that of humans in the views of La Fontaine and Rousseau. Girardin treats next Boileau and the school of La Fontaine in the seventeenth century. Succeeding chapters deal, respectively, with contemporary fabulists with La Fontaine and fabulists of the eighteenth century. Desbillons, Aubert, and Le Bailly get a chapter of their own. After chapters on British and German fabulists in the eighteenth century, there is a final chapter on the nineteenth century. Girardin calls Desbillons the second-best fabulist of the eighteenth century (after Florian), even though Desbillons wrote in Latin. People were conversant with and enthused by Latin in the eighteenth century. Girardin finds Desbillons' Latin superb; his French, by contrast, is gêné et pénible (something like disturbed and painful)! At the end of this volume there are five notes. The cover of both volumes is stamped Lycee de la Rochelle, where this volume was given as a second-prize in Greek to a student. The student got a matching pair of volumes for two different prizes. The book was purchased from A. Foucher's Librairie in La Rochelle.
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Calmann Lévy, Éditeur
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