Trésor des fables d'Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes en francoprovençal (volume 3) - Jean-Baptiste Martin

Trésor des fables d'Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes en francoprovençal (volume 3) - Quand nos fabulistes rivalisent avec La Fontaine

Collective, scientific edition under the direction of Jean-Baptiste Martin

Generations of French people still know the fables of La Fontaine that they learned in their youth. They have also been a rich source of inspiration for our regional writers, Arpitan or "patoisants", who have translated or adapted them into their own language. More or less faithful translations, very often tasty and which deserve to be known.


From the 19th century to the present day, many authors from the current Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes region have written fables in their native language, Arpitan (francoprovençal). If some of them are simple translations of La Fontaine's fables, most of them present a great originality compared to the model and many others are real creations.


This third and last volume of fables in Franco-Provençal is the most interesting because, following the versions of the last ten fables inspired by La Fontaine, it contains 39 fables inspired by other authors - for example Florian, Iriarte, Perrodil, Vitallis... and even entirely original creations.

Full of flavor and written in an alert style, these fables deserve to be known for their linguistic, but also literary and ethnological interest.

Scientific edition by Jean-Baptiste Martin, bilingual work in 3 volumes, texts in francoprovençal / arpitan (author's handwriting) with their French translation.
In the introduction, presentation of the varieties of language and spelling, as well as the authors (classified by department).

Editions de la Salevienne, collection Regionales.

See also the other volumes of fables in Arpitan:

• Trésor des fables en francoprovençal volume 1
• Trésor des fables en francoprovençal volume 2