Le Petit Français illustré, No. 149: Journal des Écoliers et des Écolières
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1902
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This issue's illustration is "The Rat Who Retired from the World." La Fontaine places this fat hermit enjoying retirement in a cheese that provides both food and shelter. The smug, professedly religious hermit rejects the pleading of his fellow rats to offer some modest alms to help in their cause at a desperate time for their Rat Republic. The religious retiree makes excuses and contents himself with offering a prayer for them. With that, he shuts his door. La Fontaine is clearly critical of this man's approach to life. Christophe places the hermit in religious garb in a well-stocked basement. At least five rats surround him as he holds his arms folded across his chest and weeps. Has Christophe abandoned the cheese-home but kept everything else? This issue is dated October 4, 1902.
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Librairie Armand Colin
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