The friends set out to visit the garden of Versailles, and its lavish surroundings are the setting where one of the friends tells the story of Cupid and Psyche to the others.The condition is fabulous, and this a treasure for the collector of Becat, the lover of mild, suggestive but overwhelming eroticism, and the lover of fine books. The story itself begins with four friends, which in many ways recalls La Fontaines own literary circle.
La Fontaines Les Amours de Psyché et de Cupidon is a short prosimetric novel: the frame narrative places the story in the garden of Versailles. Scenic wallpaper fragment Psyche at her Bath from the cycle of Psych et Cupidon, inspired by Jean de La Fontaines (1621-1695) novel Les Amours de Psyche. A large quarto of loose leaves (179 pages) with 15 just gorgeous plates by the great Bécat.It's one of the 500 on "Rives" paper, thick and creamy.Cupid and Psyche with its fairy-tale like plot is often treated as a merely entertaining story, but was equally often modernised, or placed within an updated, contemporary setting rather than the original story of a young Greek turned into a donkey.Jean de la Fontaines (1621-1695) Les Amours de Psyché et de Cupidon was first printed in 1669 and was much used in later adaptations of the story.
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