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Perrete with a dog, 1905

 File — Box: CFC Postcards Box 5
Identifier: CFC2021.0131.1-10

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

  • 1905

Extent

10 Cards : Set of ten photographic postcards of "Perrette." All addressed to Mademoiselle Hebert in Rouen and Veules-les-Roses.

Language of Materials

French

Abstract

The cards are postmarked in 1906. The approach to the story known perhaps best through LaFontaine's fable is slightly different, especially as it involves a dog. 1. This Perrette is thinking as she goes about her dear old father. 2. She stops in the woods to put down the heavy pot. 3. It even seems a good idea to take a nap in the heat; she can catch up afterward. 4. Perrette dreams of the profits and their purchases, including clothes and jewels. 5. She wakes to find she has been joined by a dog. 6. She shares her lunch with her new friend. 7. Ah, but when you eat you must drink. The dog seems to point to the pot as the answer to her need. 8. Oh, my, that will lessen the value of this pot of milk. 9. In the meantime, the pot breaks. What bad luck! 10. Perrette and the dog pray together for God to restore the pot. One surprise is that there are some stamps for five centimes and some for ten. The text is attributed to C.M. I cannot find "C.M." online. Here is another example of using a simple photographic background and photographic postcards of children to offer a variant on a well-known La Fontaine fable.

Immediate Source of Acquisition

$40 from Bertrand Cocq, Calonne-Ricouart, France, Sept., '20.

Repository Details

Part of the Creighton University Libraries, Archives & Special Collections Repository

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