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Lion in Love Photographic Postcard

1928  Photographic postcard presenting La Fontaine's moral from "The Lion in Love:  "One can say: Farewell, prudence! "  $5 from an unknown source, Feb., '22.

What a tribute to romantic love!  A gentleman languishes in a chaise with medication nearby and a blanket on his legs.  He has fallen, I guess, to the seduction of love.  The short quotation is the finish of La Fontaine's fable on the lion who let his teeth and claws be removed so that he could marry a young woman.  Once those were gone, the young woman's father began clubbing him