Fables de La Fontaine en Images Lumineuses

Abstract

There are here six silhouette images of fable scenes from La Fontaine. Apparently, another six are missing, perhaps from the stapled center of this pamphlet. The full list of twelve fables appears on the bottom of the second-to-last page of print. They are all presented in color on the back cover. There are colored sheets of translucent paper at the front and back of the pamphlet. One is to cut out sections of these to fill in various portions of the white spaces of each illustration. The six images left here are: FG, LM, Le Chat, la Belette et le Petit Lapin, MM, Le Héron, and TT. The latter and the circular title-page illustration of FG are my favorites. What a clever idea! The effect, I imagine, is like that of seeing stained glass. It is amazing to find even half of this fragile book intact!