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La Fourmi Charitable

1907?  "La Fourmi Charitable." Complete five card postcard series. Postmarked 1908.  All sent to the members of the same family Capoulade in Nice.  Paris: Croissant.  Sazerac phot.  $30 for the set of 5 from Bertrand Cocq, Calonne-Ricouart, France, Sept. '20. 

The text of these cards starts as does La Fontaine in these beautifully colored cards.  In this version, the ant offers the desperate grasshopper a hot soup.  The grasshopper receives it gratefully, takes her hand, and takes off, as he must, for further adventures, "sur le grand route lointaine."  Do I read the grasshopper's French correctly to say to the ant on the last card "La Fontaine missed your generosity"?