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The Cicada and the Ant - Fontaine - Literary Fable Poster

The Cicada and the Ant - Fontaine - Literary Fable Poster

€35,00 EUR
€35,00 EUR
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  • Designed in France
  • 100% eco-friendly paper
  • Delivery in 5 business days.

"The Cicada, having sung all summer long, found herself in great need when the north wind came."

Context of the work

The first fable in La Fontaine's very first collection (1668), it contrasts the carefree attitude of the cicada, who sang without preparing for winter, with the foresight of the ant, who refuses to lend to her. A text learned by generations of French schoolchildren, with a deliberately ambiguous moral.

What is the moral of "The Cicada and the Ant"?

The fable contrasts carelessness (the cicada who sang all summer without preparing for winter) with the ant's foresight. La Fontaine deliberately leaves the moral ambiguous: the reader may judge the ant as avaricious as she is wise.

Which format to choose for this "The Cicada and the Ant" poster?

This "The Cicada and the Ant" poster is available in 30 x 40 cm, 40 x 50 cm, and 50 x 70 cm. The 30 x 40 cm is suitable for a hallway, office, or gallery wall; the 50 x 70 cm stands alone above a sofa or bed. The frame is not included; the formats are standard and can be found commercially.

Gift idea for a child learning classics, an adult nostalgic for school, or any lover of timeless French literature.

Features and formats

Available formats: 30 x 40 cm, 40 x 50 cm, 50 x 70 cm
Paper: thick eco-friendly matte paper
Printing: high resolution, colorfast over time
Frame: not included
Printing medium: poster, art print on matte paper
Theme: quote, poetry
Delivery: most orders arrive in 5 business days, careful packaging

When to give this print

The grasshopper and the ant, the first fable French children learn by heart : a much-loved teacher gift, at the end of the school year or for Christmas, alone or as a class group gift. It also suits a child's bedroom or a classroom wall.

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Close-up of the grain of our thick eco-friendly matte 170 gsm paper

Heure d'été Editions

Beautiful words deserve beautiful paper

These verses are set to be hung: a chosen typeface, measured margins, white space worked around the text. The paper, an uncoated matte 170 gsm, stays slightly fibrous: it reads like the page of a book.

There is a quiet pleasure in living with French literature in the original. The poem keeps the language it was written in, and with it the sound the writer chose, which no translation quite carries over. On an English-speaking wall it stops being decoration and becomes something with a little cachet: a piece of France you can read on your way past, every morning. It earns the large format. At 50x70 cm the text is read from across the room, and the page holds a wall the way a painting does.

  • Matte paper, 170 gsm
  • Eco-friendly, FSC certified
  • Printed close to you

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    Our illustrations are created in our studio and found nowhere else. The poems and masterpieces are hand-picked, one by one: a curated collection, not a catalogue.

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