FS: A Man is offered steaming-hot meat by a woman on Friday. Note in the top frame design both several fish and an inscription on not eating fish.

"Le Lion devenu vieux": An old cave man lies in his cave with his hatchet close by while a younger man stands outside the entrance to his cave.

"Le Loup, le Chèvre et le Chevreau": A soldier stands outside a door with his hand on the top of the door, but a lovely young woman will not let him in. The back scene may render the fable senseless: the young goat, looking over the door, can see the wolf completely.

TH: A mule rider outstrips the driver of a broken-down automobile. The hare on the back of the card has his paws to his eyes; is he perhaps just waking up?

"The Two Mules": The chief lies killed with many arrows, while the undecorated brave survives.

FK: The picture, echoing the text, shows what kings do: they destroy. 

CJ: I cannot tell what this monk has in his hand, but I think the illustrator is telling us that the monk does not know the value of what he holds.

Coach & Fly: Like the fly who thought he single-handedly brought the wagon up the hill, the little girl thinks she is raising the bucket.

Old Woman and Servants: Is this Ulysses making things worse by his efforts to alleviate things?

BF: A couple walks through a garden. The male, with feathers in his cap, smiles and strides confidently, either reading or looking into a mirror. A woman holding a flower looks on and smiles with him. The border uses flowers below and peacock feathers above, but features a (plucked?) crow at the top center.

"L'Enfant et le Maitre d'École": An older man is instructing a young painter, who holds a palette in his hand. Is the speaker a teacher, or perhaps just a critic or a know-it-all?

FG: A young black man with flowers in his hand walks away from a home with an upper room. At the window of that room, a (white?) woman is seductively perched. Grapes decorate the side columns.

GA: In a familiar scene, the poor guitar-toting young woman is rejected by the mother with a large headdress.   (extra cropped copy)

"Le Lièvre et les Grenouilles": A mounted rider moves from right to left through the background of the picture, perhaps fleeing from a mounted group in the far right, while children and a woman in the foreground get out of the path.

MM: Napoleon sits, presumably on the shore of Elba, thinking over the conquests he had envisioned but now can no longer attain.   (extra cropped copy)

OF: A grandiose man strides forward, with two attendants behind him. Under the picture is La Fontaine's comment that every bourgeois wants to act like a grand gentleman and every marquis wants to have pages. Frogs, lilies, and pods occur along the borders.

OR: Perhaps I should recognize this scene from antiquity: a bare-breasted woman stands while a man lies (dead?) at her feet with a tiara nearby. In the background, across a river, fires and explosions rage. Who is this female reed that bent while the mighty male oak resisted and fell?

"Le Singe et le Chat": In a colonial scene, an old fruit seller looks towards us, while two children work together to steal and eat his fruit.

TMCM: One person gestures to another towards a table laden with food.

WL: A young child drinks from a stream. Is that an ugly dark witch who stands across the stream looking at the child?

"The Laborer and His Sons": The rich harvest behind this hard worker shows the fruit of hard work.

LM: Might the lesson in the picture here be that a humble water-carrier can help the mightiest warrior?

GGE: Are we viewing the scene itself rather than a metaphorical translation of it?

Verso of "Le Lièvre et les Grenouilles"