Le Fabuliste des Enfans et des Adolescens ou Fables Nouvelles
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1833
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Pour servir a l'instruction et a l'amusement de la jeunesse the title-page continues. Here are seven books worth of fables with eight full-page illustrations inserted. The frontispiece, for example, has Fable showing animals to children: they have their language and we can learn from them. Other illustrations belong one to a book. They present, respectively, the two boatmen; reason, religion, and philosophy; the juggler and two monkeys; the shepherds, peasants, and wolves; the cypress tree; the treasure found; the young man and the chicken. The book is not in Bodemann. But Joseph Reyre is: he is one of the authors of the Fablier du premier Age and the Fablier du second Age. He also cooperated in 1844 on a Florian edition. He seems to take up the Desbillons mantle of the Jesuit involved in instructive fables. Here he can be announced as a Jesuit in 1833; Desbillons' last books did not allow him to be titled as from the Society of Jesus. I tried the first fable. A child meets the fabulist and is glad to see him because he enjoys his work and is not offended by it. The fabulist is happy because that is exactly what he is after. My sense is that these are all new fables. Both covers are lacking, and the book is well worn. It is nonetheless a nice little treasure. I look forward to learning more especially about Father Reyre's work.
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Chez Perisse Frères, Libraires/A la Librairie Ecclésiastique
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7189 (Access ID)