7 DECEMBER 1991, Page 26

This little piggy

Sir: In answer to Wynn Wheldon's letter (30 November), the Gallimard translation of Animal Farm — La Republique des Ani- maux — of 1964 renames Napoleon as Cesar in the text. All the other names — Snowball, Squealer, Major, Boxer, etc remain as before. But interestingly in the blurb on the back of my edition Napoleon remains Napoleon. Did somebody break the law?

Peter Kemp

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