Les Ineffables de La Fontaine, 1990

File — Box: CFC Postcards Box 1

Identifier: CFC2018.0336

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

1990

Extent

3 Cards : Les Ineffables de La Fontaine. Par Turier. 24 00 0092. Three cards (out of a larger set?) parodying La Fontaine's fables by putting the characters into sexually compromising scenes. Printed in France. Arcueil: Éditions d'art gnoe.

Language of Materials

French

Additional Description

Abstract

In LM, the rat takes sexual advantage of the netted lion, who thinks dark and gloomy thoughts. In OF, the ox inflates the frog. In TMCM, the country mouse discovers to his dismay—as he runs out the door--that the town mouse is gay. The French can do this kind of thing and get away with it!