La Fontaine in Pyrenean dialect - Lot 490

La Fontaine in Pyrenean dialect PORTES (Jules) Fablos Causidos de Lafountaino libromen traduitos en Patouès Pyrénéen et enrichidos dous éléments de la Grammairo d'aquéro lengo per Jules PORTES (de Nestier). Bagnères de Bigorre, Plassot, 1857. In-8: 2f., 1f., IV, 12-284pp. Modern pastiche brown basane, ornate ribbed spine, publisher's yellow cover. Jules PORTES offers here a version in Pyrenean dialect, more specifically from Bagnères. To be compared with another Bigourdane version: "Caoucos Fablos de J. de la Fontaine en rimos Bigourdanos (Patoués de Bagneros)" by Dr. DEJEANNE under the pseudonym NABAILLET, first published in 1886. ["We used to have small, grassy, muddy paths cluttered with friendly patois, proudly written by very local, highly motivated authors, with a high, rocky language; all we have left is an Occitan laminated by costumed academics driving along a deserted... highway"].