Les Cinq fabulistes, ou les trois cents fables d'Ésope, de Lockmann, de Philelphe, de Gabrias et d'Avienus, Vol. II
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De Bellegarde, Jean-Baptist Morvan
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1802
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As I wrote of Volume I, this is a serious treasure in the collection. It is rare, I believe, for bringing together five fabulists. It is also rare in France for not including La Fontaine. A particular strength of these two volumes lies in the illustrations. This volume includes a frontispiece of a bull and boar fighting. There is one other full-page illustration, facing 93. A hunter captures an eagle and removes his wings to keep him from escaping. The eagle is full of chagrin, but one day is bought by a better owner, who lets him grow back his flying wings. The eagle rewards the second owner, but a wise fox urges him to give instead to the first. If he is ever caught again, he might receive better treatment. Then there are some 21 pages with two illustrations. Among these notice the page facing 10. It has a strong presentation of GGE and then a surprising presentation but one that fits the text for “A Male Monkey and His Child.” This father’s embrace of his favored child is so fierce that the child cannot breathe and thus perishes. Bodemann comments correctly that the illustrations draw their inspiration chiefly from Barlow and Baudoin. This volume contains Fables CCVII through CCC on 104 pages, followed by some 45 “fables mythologiques” on 105-278, as the closing T of C indicates. My understanding is that there is no attempt to assign authorship among the five fabulists here for the 300 fables. It is also my understanding that Bellegarde is responsible for the quatrains accompanying these prose fables. About 4" x 6½".
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