Fables Nouvelles
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Fiot, Eugénie
Fiot, Laure
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1858
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I do not know when I have had more of an experience of watching a book fall apart before my eyes. This book began in poor condition, with its cover peeling. It proceeded to peel right off in a few weeks! Now, five months later, I finally have a chance to look up this pair of siblings in Fabulists French, and I find that they are not there. The book contains eight books of seventeen fables each and a ninth of sixteen fables. Their purpose is spelled out clearly in the preface: to accustom readers (young and old) to the ideas of order and work and to inspire sentiments of virtue, devotion, and humanity. I tried two fables. III 4 has a father teaching his boy what the Aesopic tradition might call the lesson of the filberts and III 5 has a fox and cat outraged over a wolf's devouring of a lamb, from which the fox turns to destroying a chicken and the cat a mouse.…
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Librairie ecclésiastique, classique et élémentaire de Ch. Fouraut
Librarie Ecclésiastique classique et élémentaire,
Librarie Ecclésiastique classique et élémentaire,
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2394 (Access ID)