Jean de Brunhoff
1899-1937
Histoire de Babar, le petit éléphant (The Story of Babar), Maquette
ca. 1930-1931
8 1/4 x 6 1/2 inches (21 x 16 cm)
MA 6304
Gift of Laurent, Mathieu, and Thierry de Brunhoff, and purchased with the assistance of The Florence Gould Foundation and the Acquisitions Fund, Fellows Endowment Fund, Gordon N. Ray Fund, and the Heineman Fund, 2004
Transcription
Vite Babar emmène Arthur et Céleste dans le grand magasin et leur achète de beaux costumes. / Maintenant Babar leur montre les promène dans la ville et les mène chez le pâtissier.
Translation
Babar hurries to take Arthur and Celeste to the big store and buys them some fine clothes. / Then Babar shows them takes them into town and into the pastry shop.
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Il les emmène chez le pâtissier manger de bons gâteaux.
He takes them to a pastry shop to eat some delicious cakes.