Creighton University

The verso of each card is given entirely to the address. The note in each case is thus written on the picture side of the card. The GA adult card presents a traditional view of the fable: a girl holding a guitar reaches out for help to the woman at the spinning wheel. A pastoral background is added behind these photographed figures. Is it not winter in the fable? "Le Serpent et la Lime" pictures an outrageous fusilier/pistolier against a wary bandolier. Which is the serpent and which the file? These cards are among the more unusual La Fontaine things I have found.     

The verso of the card is again given entirely to the address and is otherwise uniform with the other two cards from Bergeret. This time the verso is blank. The application of La Fontaine's fable is imaginative and properly risqué. While two gentlemen get the disrobing woman's shoe and garment respectively, the judge gets the woman! 

The "Rooster and Partridge" card may be the most difficult to decipher.  "If they are that way to their own, why am I surprised if they are ugly to me?"  FG follows a common turn in having a gentleman look up to women above him.  This man in "Wolf Become a Shepherd" may project an image of caring for the seated woman, but his true designs may be more wolfish. 

Of these three, WL is new to me.  It does not take much to decipher the meaning here! 

Here is a surprise.  As Bertrand noted, the very same photo appears in this card and 'Le Serpent et la Lime."  Is this a fable postcard or a political postcard?  Might it refer to the British terms given to the Boer republics at the end of the Anglo-Boer War in 1902 or perhaps earlier to the war itself?