SUMMURY ---------------- "The fables tell us when it speaks: the success of the fables is the sign of their eternal modernity around their message. In the fables of Charles de Leusse, animals tell stories, sometimes sad, sometimes funny, but always realistic to remind us that common sense sometimes saves the day even life!" Albane Parker BOOK -------- EDILIVRE https://www.edilivre.com/?s=de+leusse AMAZON https://www.amazon.co.uk/Fables-1-Leusse-Charles/dp/2414321326 FNAC https://livre.fnac.com/a13310921/Charles-De-Leusse-AphoRhymes (ISBN : 9782414321322) QUOTES ------------ GOODREADS https://www.goodreads.com/author/quotes/9787795.Charles_de_Leusse QUOTES.NET https://www.quotes.net/authors/Charles+de+LEUSSE SOCIAL NETWORK ------------------------------ INSTAGRAM https://www.instagram.com/charlesdeleusse/ PIXELFED https://pixelfed.social/charlesdeleusse/ PINTEREST https://www.pinterest.fr/charlesdeleusse/

1. 2
Charles de Leusse
Fables 1
50 fables in English

2. 22
Version anglaise de Fables1 (livre déjà publié par Edilivre,
en 2018, mais en français)

3. 2 3
Prologue
Aesop, Phaedrus, Abstémius,
La Fontaine and Florian
So many fables, so many Greats.
Water is worth its weight.
Forms for the same weight;
Different, but not far.
Stories for purposes
Just starting our life.
They tell much more than they,
Because they talk us about when they talk.
Thus the fables
Go by word of mouth.
Let’s start by reading them.
Each page has its digit:
More we turn the pages,
More treasure appears.

4. 24
The Rabbit and the Hedgehog
« What good, said the rabbit,
All these spines, such thousand spears,
Because its thorns do not prevent
A sea urchin being eaten?
These lightnings of fixed obscure
Which attract only leaves and soil. »
At these words, the fox came,
Peeling softer than a hare,
But preferred the cousin
Of fur than hedgehog.
Because rather to anticipate
Than to search the thickets.

5. 2 5
The Bird and its Sun
To properly see the path,
So you have feet above.
Bird wanted like Icarus,
Heating the wings or frying.
It ascended into sky, but had
Only one ice for juice.
Falling, he straightens
And thus save his carcass,
But so close to the ground that a worm
Would have kissed him with earth.
Unfortunately! A tree became dead
By his fall made himself known.
All stones are near us.
The last is behind us.

6. 26
The Cheetah
Cheetah, « lightning on all fours »,
Also wanted to be « thunder »,
He begs Jupiter to give it
The force of the strong elephant.
But it also had its heaviness
That made only a prey: him.
We want the qualities of fools
That our faults devour, then we.

7. 2 7
The Ant
An ant lamented:
« I don’t moult like butterfly.
I don’t sing like cricket.
What good am I doing? »
But does she know that for people,
It is perfect, or just like?
We are jealous of our close neighbors,
But not the sun and its care.