Avec le Bon La Fontaine
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1945
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Between 6 and 53 in this fragile and lovely large-format booklet are twelve La Fontaine fables, each presented in a large chromolithograph followed by a few questions about the picture and a prose text presenting the fable in a form suitable for young listeners. Following each fable is a two-page application with its own large chromolithograph. At times the parallel between fable and application-story is quite close, as in the first. A proud young boy says that he will never be as proud as the crow in FC. An older boy challenges him to show his courage by climbing up a ladder and perching on a tree branch. When the younger fellow has taken up the challenge, the older boy removes the ladder and challenges him to show by courage by jumping down from the tree branch. Sometimes the parallel is more extraneous, as when -- following upon TMCM -- two children steal some pastries but then repent because God sees them. Several illustrations stand out. FC (6) is charming; its application Le Bon Leçon (8) has a strong sense of pathos. TH (18) seems to have a frisky rabbit going in the wrong direction! Its lesson, Guy and Monique (20) contrasts nicely the working child and the child who dallies before starting. GA (22) is nicely done, and its story seems to have room for criticism both of the niggardly ant and of the careless cicada. I am surprised after the detailed expression of the artists that the cover and title-page illustration is signed A. Hanjik. It is a two-colored representation of LM in a style quite different from the full-page chromolithographs throughout the work. There is a T of C on 54. A favorite word in this work is paresseux, lazy. It fits many of the characters, animal and human. Not in Bodemann.
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Tolra, Éditeur
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7558 (Access ID)