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Les Aventures de Jean-Paul Choppart par Louis Desnoyers: L’Episode de Panouille (page 1/2)

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[picture: The front cover, with gold foil]

Pictures from “Les Aventures de Jean-Paul Choppart par Louis Desnoyers: L’Episode de Panouille” by Frédéric Goupil.

A small French children’s novel that I bought at Libraire Books in New Orleans. It seems that the character was created by Louis Desnoyers but that this book was written by Frédéric Goupil.

Title: Les Aventures de Jean-Paul Choppart par Louis Desnoyers: L’Episode de Panouille

Author: Goupil, Frédéric

Published by: Chez J.-J. Dubochet et Compagnie, 33, Rue De Seine.

City: Paris

Date: 1843

Total items: 7

Out of copyright (called public domain in the USA), hence royalty-free for all purposes usage credit requested, or as marked.

Some sample images

[picture: Boy thumbing his nose out of a window]

Boy thumbing his nose out of a window

The frontispiece shows Jean-Paul Choppart, the boy the book is about, looking out of a circular stone window and thumbing his nose, or perhaps pretending to play the flute. He has curly hair. [more...] [$]

[picture: Title Page]

Title Page

Title page from “Les Aventures de Jean-Paul Choppart par Louis Desnoyers: L’Episode de Panouille” by Frédéric Goupil. [more...] [$]

[picture: The front cover, with gold foil]

The front cover, with gold foil

The front cover of Les Aventures de Jean-Paul Choppart par Louis Desnoyers: L’Episode de Panouille is pinted in gold onreddish-brown cloth boards. It is a little the worse for wear. [more...] [$]

[picture: Le marquis de la Galoche]

Le marquis de la Galoche

A girl (I think) with a strange hat, a drum, a guitar, a triangle: a one-man marching band. [$]

[picture: The boy himself]

The boy himself

A sketch of a curly-haired scruffily-dressed boy with his hands in his pockets, reproduced as a wood engraving. [$]


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