An edition of Les contes drôlatiques
(1855)
Droll stories
by Honoré de Balzac
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A collection of stories with a mediaeval theme rather after the style of Rabelais. Early editions were illustrated by Gustav Dore and were published by Garnier Freres of Paris. The stories range from the absurd to the downright grim but the illustrations give them a life of their own. Rather off-putting to the reader used to modern French, the stories are written in an archaic French that is not always easy to interpret.
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Social life and customs, France in fiction, Fiction, Translations into English, French Short stories, Short stories, Manners and customs, Protected DAISY, Romance literature, Continental european fiction (fictional works by one author), FICTION / Short Stories (single author), FICTION / ClassicsPeople
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Droll stories: collected in the monasteries of Touraine and given to the light
1985, Panther
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Die tolldreisten Geschichten in den Abteien der Touraine
1981, Opera Verlag
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Balzac's Contes drôlatiques: droll stories collected from the abbeys of Touraine
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Les contes drolatiques colligez ez abbayes de Touraine et mis en lumière
1881, Garnier
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Balzac's Contes dro latiques =: Droll stories : collected from the abbeys of Touraine
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Book Details
Table of Contents
Vol. I. The fair Imperia
The venial sin
The King's sweetheart
The Devil's heir
The merry jests of King Louis the Eleventh
The High Constable's wife
The maid of Thilouse
The brother-in arms
The Vicar of Azay-le-Rideau
The reproach
The three clerks of St. Nicholas
The continence of King Francis the First
The merry tattle of the nuns of Poissy
How the Cateau d'Azay came to be built
The false courtesan
The danger of being too innocent
The dear night of love.
Vol. II. The sermon of the merry Vicar of Meudon
The succubus
Despair in love
Perserverance in love
Concerning a provost who did not recognise things
About the Monk Amador, who was a glorious Abbot of Turpenay
Bertha the penitent
How the pretty maid of Portillon convinced her judge
In which it is demonstrated that fortune is always feminine
Concerning a poor man who was called Le Vieux par-Chemins
Odd sayings of three pilgrims
Innocence
The fair Imperia married.
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