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Article published In: Bestia: Yearbook of the Beast Fable Society
[Bestia 2] 1990
► pp. 63–80

La Fontaine’s “The Frogs who asked for a King”

Reptiles and revolutions in French fable illustration and caricature

 | Middlebury College, Middlebury, Vermont
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