The donkey trade (fable)

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by Christophe » 12/03/12, 14:30

For literary ignoramuses (or almost) like me: http://bacfrancais.chez.com/chatbelette.html

Introduction

Text in a childish register, fun, light, easy to understand. Very animated virtual text, dynamic alert, attractive.
However, this text hides an important denunciation.

Litterature

From the palace of a young Rabbit
Dame Belette one fine morning
Took hold; it is cunning.
The Master being absent, it was easy for him.
One day she carried his penates home
That he had gone to pay Aurore his court,
Among thyme and dew.
After he grazes, trots, turns around,
Janot Lapin returns to the underground stays.
The Weasel had put her nose in the window.
O hospitable gods, what do I see here appearing?
Said the animal chased from the paternal home:
O there, Madame la Belette,
That we dislodge without a trumpet,
Or I'm going to warn all the rats in the country.
The Lady with a pointed nose replied that the earth
Was in the first occupant.
It was a beautiful subject of war
Only a home where he himself only entered by crawling.
And when it would be a kingdom
I would like to know, she said, which law
Has always granted it
To Jean fils or nephew of Pierre or Guillaume,
Rather than Paul, rather than me.
Jean Lapin alleged custom and usage.
It is, he says, their laws which have given me this home.
Made master and lord, and who from father to son,
Have it from Pierre to Simon, then to me Jean, transmitted.
Is the first occupant a wiser law?
- Well, without shouting more,
Let us relate, she said, to Raminagrobis.
He was a living cat like a hermit devotee,
A cat making chattemite,
A holy cat man, well fur, big and fat,
Expert arbitrator in all cases.
Jean Lapin for approved judge.
Both of them arrived
In front of his furry majesty.
Grippeminaud said to them: My children, come near,
Come here, I'm deaf, years are the cause.
Both approached fearing nothing.
As soon as he reaches the contestants,
Grippeminaud the good apostle
Throwing both sides the claw at the same time,
Put the litigants in agreement by sketching one and the other.
This is very similar to the debates that sometimes have
The little sovereigns reporting to the Kings.


Axes announcement

Etude

I - A pleasure, a liveliness of writing

- the rabbit: "young rabbit", "jeannot rabbit" = popular
"master and lord" = it is a landowner who knows his rights and duties and expresses himself in a legal register.

- The weasel: "Dame weasel" = reference to the tale with "palace" = apologue
"madame the weasel", "the lady with the pointed nose" = periphrase to say cunning
it represents the profiteers, those who question society, the hypocrites.

- The cat: much more complete description, La Fontaine refines his character for the fall.
It has two names, two sides, "Raminagrobis" and "Grippeminaud"
It reminds a bit of Tartuffe. It is through this character that we will enter my denunciation.
Two faces: moral qualities = "devout hermit", "holy man", "good apostle"
However, he hides his game, he uses a false fatherly air to achieve his ends: "my children"
Alliteration in R
- harsh sound that warns the reader
- purring

La Fontaine varies the registers of language, variation in the manner of writing.
Diversity of styles: tale, fable, mythology "hospital gods" .., poetry, popular controversy (in the dialogue), portrait, literary reference = "Raminagrobis" = kings of cats in Rabelais; "Grippeminaud" = archduke of the kings thickets in Rabelais
He is capable of entering a more serious genre = dialogue between rabbit and weasel which suggests that we are in a courtroom.
Fall = real violence, unexpected, we are not in a story of children. The dynamism of this text hides a hard, formidable reflection in the field of justice.


II - Reflection on justice

It begins from the discovery of an offense. There is a crime, threats then an argumentative part. The reader gradually becomes spectator of this audience. It is the questioning of the law.
There is undoubtedly a legal vacuum that the rabbit cannot fill. "their law", which? He cannot answer in a precise way. Questioning of justice = he did not know how to translate the request.
This justice will prove to be of a rare violence, an amazing violence.
They were wrong, they trusted justice, they showed that there was a legal vacuum in private property so they are punished.


Conclusion

The fountain takes on a delicate subject which he resolves with violence. We feel here the virulence of La Fontaine. From a short story, he asks a revolutionary question. Denunciation of a difficulty to formulate.
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by Janic » 12/03/12, 15:47

and especially:
Grippeminaud the good apostle
Throwing both sides the claw at the same time,
Put the litigants in agreement by crunching one and the other!
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by elephant » 20/09/12, 19:34

I found the author of the land of mice, a certain Thomas C. DOUGLAS (1904-1986)

source:

http://www.cineyrgie.nl/?id=3276

I recommend this site to you: www.cineyrgie.nl (.nl to prevent it from being blocked by the Belgian authorities, I suppose). A particularly effective light on the blocking of certain investigations; Apparently in some countries it's better to be a criminal than a witness ...
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