Jeanne Lagarde, 1950

File — Box: CFC Postcards Box 5

Identifier: CFC2021.0126.1-8

Staff Only

Scope and Contents

From the Collection:

The Carlson Fable Collection is a gathering of primary fable materials at Reinert Alumni Memorial Library at Creighton University. It grew out of the personal collection of fable materials gathered by Rev. Gregory Carlson, S.J. and was given to the Creighton Libraries in 1996. There are more than 10,000 books and approximately 8,000 artifacts in the collection.

From plates to stamps, from cards to whiskey decanters, from toys to posters, you'll find just about anything you can imagine here. Please explore all that is to offer here in my fables Catalogue of Objects.

This is the largest online catalog of fable related objects on the internet. Many are from Aesop's Fables but you will find La Fontaine, Velazquez and Krylov also represented in this collection.

Dates

1950

Extent

8 Cards : Eight colored painted postcards (out of a set of ?) signed by Jeanne Lagarde and presenting children in situations recalling La Fontaine's fables. Paris: Editions Superluxe. Printed in France.

Language of Materials

French

Additional Description

Abstract

The approach of these cards is uniform and, to me, unsatisfying. The children seem presented to remind one of the fable situation, not to play it out in their own world. Perhaps the foxy boy has talked the dreamy girl on a limb of a tree out of her cheese or bread; this card may come the closest to playing out the fable in the world of these children. How, however, are the boy and girl at the stream wolf and lamb? Is the girl with the potted plant teaching the boy with the shovel to love working the land? How are the characters in TMCM, one from city and one from country, playing out the fable's story? TH labors to put a house on the back of one racer and to give ears to the racer behind her. The French know their fables so well, I suppose, that they are happy to see them represented by children, even if the fable is minimally involved.