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1935? Aphoristic Train Miss: Rien ne sert

1935?    Colored postcard illustrating a girl with a birdcage missing a train that has just left.  "Rien ne sert de courir – il faut partir à point!"  608.  JDA.  Image signed by "R."  $6 from Bertrand Cocq, Calonne Ricouart, France, Sept., '60.

The illustration here is quite simple.  The card is enhanced with glitter around the train's smoke and around some edges of the image.  The aphorism is from La Fontaine's TH, in which the hare waited at the beginning of the race to make it interesting.