RARE! Fables Choisies by Jean de La Fontaine | Circa Late 1800s/Early 1900s Children's Fables | IN FRENCH | Gorgeous, Full-Page Illustrations Trays According to the dust jacket

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1919 antique history book for high school grades featuring short stories of famous heroes and patriots from different eras of history including: George Washington

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RARE! Fables Choisies by Jean de La Fontaine | Circa Late 1800s/Early 1900s Children's Fables | IN FRENCH | Gorgeous, Full-Page Illustrations Trays According to the dust jacketA stunning, antique children's book, Fables Choisies is a collection of different fables from around the world, compiled and retold in FRENCH by Jean de La Fontaine in the 1600s. This book is not dated, but the publishers was in business between 1888 1907. ABOUT FABLES CHOISIES (Courtesy of Wikipedia) Jean de La Fontaine collected fables from a wide variety of sources, both Western and Eastern, and adapted them into French free verse. They were issued