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Heudebert Advertising Handbills

1935? Three advertising handbills for Heudebert products “Pour avoir de beaux enfants.”  Numbered 1, 3, and 4.  11.5" x 8.75".  €10 each from a bouquinist, Paris, June, ’25.   

Very attractive colored work of 4 to 6 panels carries through the fables.  The fourth panel of FS has the fox walking by the work at work on a big pot of food.  He leaves his hat on a branch but then, in Panel 5, he is served a tall vase.  In the sixth panel he walks away with his hate on his head.  Perrette’s daydreams in MM of chasing a fox away from the chickens she has acquired.  Then she will buy a big and jump for joy over her acquisition.  Not a smart jump!  “The Laborer and His Children” carries its message well in just four panels.  The last panel has the three sons looking at a tall harvest.  Heudebert seems to have offered a wide variety of products.  The verso of each handbill here specifies products from normal flour, from refreshing flour, and from anti-diarrheal flour.