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J.M. Piettre

1970? Fables de La Fontaine. Eight cards of La Fontaine's fables with photographed scenes of plush animals and dolls.  Numbered among a set of 114.  Studio J.M. Piettre. Imprimé en France.

The photographs show Steiff-like stuffed animals and dolls engaged in the scene. All three Crucy cards contain messages from Gentilly (one is dated in 1975) written in the same hand and signed with the same name (Camard?).  For me the effort to be cute costs these scenes heavily. Perhaps the most intriguing shows the two mice of TMCM dealing with wine and sausage.

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MSA (#13) for €3 from Gérard Crucy, Yerres, at the Paris Post Card Exhibit, Jan., '05.  Is that a hedgehog who is acting as the son of the miller?

TMCM (#15) for €3 from Gérard Crucy, Yerres, at the Paris Post Card Exhibit, Jan., '05.  The sausage and wine make for fun, but problems of scale hurt this picture.

"Les Animaux Malades de la Peste" (#33) for €3 from Gérard Crucy, Yerres, at the Paris Post Card Exhibit, Jan., '05.  This may be the most successful of these cards; the collected animals have their own charm. Extra copy for $5.40 from Bertrand Cocq, Calonne Ricouart, Sept., '20.

FC (#12).  €3 from Témoignage d'Images, Paris, at the Paris Post Card Exhibition, Jan., '05.  The bill of the crow in this picture seems odd. Has it been forced into an awkward position so that it can hold the cheese? The verso of this card follows the format of others in the series but does not mention "Studio J.M. Piettre."

MM (#34).  Here a doll has a pitcher on her head. €4 from Témoignage d'Images, Paris, at the Paris Post Card Exhibition, Jan., '05.  I believe that the photographer got this picture just before the doll tipped over!  Extra copy for $5.40 from Bertrand Cocq, Calonne Ricouart, Sept., '20.

GGE (#32). $5.40 from Bertrand Cocq, Calonne Ricouart, Sept., '20.Has the face of this farmer been made up to make him even more menacing?

"Ass and Dog" (#28).  $5.40 from Bertrand Cocq, Calonne Ricouart, Sept., '20. Scale is again an issue here.  The basket is highlighted to show what the ass will not help the dog to enjoy.  

WL (#27).  $5.40 from Bertrand Cocq, Calonne Ricouart, Sept., '20. The animals are well posed here to express the wolf's domination of the defenseless lamb.