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Fables: La Fontaine’s “Le Chêne et le Roseau” (The Oak Tree and the Reed)
Le Chêne et le Roseau, by Achille-Etna Michallon, (1816) Achille-Etna Michallon (1796-1822, aged 26) The Fitzwilliam Museum Jean de la Fontaine (Vol. 1, Book XXII) The Oak Tree and the Reed (Æsop, No....
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Donkey-Skin: a Motif Labelled “Unnatural Love”
Donkey-Skin, by Nadezhda Illarionova* *Nadezhda Illarionova (Photo credit: Google Images) Donkey-Skin (Peau d’Âne) was written by Charles Perrault, in 1694. But it is also dated 1697 as Histoires ou...
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“Le Chêne et le Roseau” (The Oak and the Reed): the Moral
Achille Michallon (1796-1822; aged 26) (For Michallon, the “Oak and the Reed” could be used to describe the fate of Napoleon I.) (Photo credit: Wikipedia) The Oak and the Reed (I.22) (text EN)←...
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Molière’s “L’École des maris,”“The School for Husbands” (The End)
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The Princesse d’Élide’s Récit de l’Aurore
Dom Garcie de Navarre ou le Prince jaloux par François Boucher, dessin, et Laurent Cars, gravure Our next play is Dom Garcie de Navarre. It was not a success, but it is a fine discourse on jealousy. I...
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