Le Renard et le Corbeau

Abstract

This 4¾" x 6½" pamphlet is a song version of FC with a one-page musical score, followed by alternating pairs of pages. The first, third and fifth pair present colored full-page illustrations of the chronology of the story. The second and fourth pair present text of the following verses of the song, which runs on to a thirteenth verse. The last page presents a moral. In this version of the story, the crow keeps climbing higher up, branch to branch. I cannot understand how the crow can talk extensively with the cheese in his beak before singing and thus losing the cheese. The moral is "Don't love cheese too much or talk while you are eating"! Quantin advertises on the last page seven full series of booklets like this one. This present volume is the only fable in the whole group.