Language: English
Published by Philadelphia, PA : Macrae Smith Company, 1929., 1929
ISBN 10: 1605061816 ISBN 13: 9781605061818
Seller: Joseph Valles - Books, Stockbridge, GA, U.S.A.
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Hardcover. Condition: Good. [191] pp. ; 26 cm. ; OCLC: 1718650 ; LCCN: 29-21393 ; grey and black pictorial cloth ; several full-page illustrations in black ; "These tales are still characteristic of the tales told or sung in the farmhouses, at weddings and christenings in the Breton-speaking regions of Brittany, in spite of the disastrous modern influence of moving pictures and popular songs. Some of the stories in this book are unpublished hitherto in their present form, the subjects of them being taken from the ancient folk songs of Barzaz Breiz, or from oral tradition. Others are translated from the old collection of legends gathered in the Breton language, from the Breton people, by the distinguished writer and son of Brittany, Emile Souvestre and published in French under the title of Le Foyer Breton.[and the].series of fairy and folk tales Contes et Légendes de Bretagne and Noveaux Contes et Légendes [by François Cadic].; signed on the front end paper by Louise Cotnam, wife of Guy Massé, himself the son of Jules Massé, the founder of La Societé du Bon Parler Français in Montréal, Canada ; spine sunned ; foxing ; else G. Book.