Nice Carnival 1953, 1953

Item — Box: CFC Postcards Box 5

Identifier: CFC2021.0116.1-8

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

1953

Extent

8 Cards : Eight photographic postcards of the "Carnaval de Nice," each recording a float presenting a fable of La Fontaine with mention of its producer. Les Éditions "MAR," Nice.

Language of Materials

French

Additional Description

Abstract

These lively photographs bring back happy memories of a few days on the French Riviera and one very short evening and night in Nice. In good carnival fashion, regular old human beings are on these floats along with the bigger-than-life figures central to each fable. FG tends to be a bit on the racy side. Notice that the photographs were taken generally in front of the "Casino Municipal." A close look at the "main float" will show that characters from many fables have made their way onto that float. The grasshopper and ant are closest to us. And I seem to see two doves perched on the king's hand. And there is a tortoise on the left front of the float.