Le Loup et le Chien

Abstract

Here is an interesting case of things coming together from different times and places. In Salamanca in 1986, I found a simple pop-up from a publisher I did not know. Sixteen years later I found a French die-cut presentation of LM done by the same publisher or at least copyrighted by that publisher. Now here is a another simple die-cut presentation of a fable from the same publisher and collection. The fable is told in French prose and evidences several changes in the story. Here the famished wolf is traveling with an ant. The wolf lapses into a dream of better times, and the ant disappears. After meeting a dog, this wolf finds two eggs and is about to eat them when a crow attacks him. The perception of the dog's collar (not just a rubbed neck), the wolf's realization of the value of his freedom, and the end of the fable all come quickly on the sixth page.