Two three-holed The Tortoise and the Hare and two The Town Mouse and the Country Mouse landscape album pages
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1978
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The The Town Mouse and the Country Mouse illustration is the simple cartoon-like country scene on the envelopes from the same "croix rouge 78" promotion. There are comments on the history of illustration of La Fontaine's fables and on the illustrations found in the stamps themselves, which are meant to celebrate an illustrative style almost exactly a hundred years old at the time. The The Tortoise and the Hare illustration shows a sweating runner on the left, but the tortoise—complete with sun-hat—finishing on the right. The shorter comments on the The Tortoise and the Hare page are taken verbatim from the longer comments on the The Town Mouse and the Country Mouse page.