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The Priest and the Corpse, illustration for 'Fables' of La Fontaine, published by H. Fournier...

The Priest and the Corpse, illustration for 'Fables' of La Fontaine, published by H. Fournier Aine, 1838 (engr
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The Priest and the Corpse, illustration for 'Fables' of La Fontaine, published by H. Fournier Aine, 1838 (engraving)
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Grandville (Jean Ignace Isidore Gerard) (1803-47) / French
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Private Collection
Medium
engraving
Date
1838 AD (C19th AD)
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Le Curé et le Mort; Fable from Book VII, no. 11 of La Fontaine's fables, first published in 1668; Jean de la Fontaine (1621-95) French author, poet and moralist; a priest accompanies the body of a dead person to a funeral and as he travels in the carriage with the corpse, thinks only of the money and rewards he will receive for his work; the carriage overturns and the priest himself is killed; the moral of this tale is that greed is punished; it is also a satire on the cupidity of the clergy;

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accident / art / coffin / priest / religious orders / religion / La Fontaine Jean de (1621-1695) (work) / 17th century / France / Europe / Grandville (1803-47) / 19th century / illustrator / greed / morality / cure / corpse / fables / cautionary / moral / cupidity / fable

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