Droll Stories, Complete

About this eBook

Author

Balzac, Honoré de, 1799-1850

Title

Droll Stories — Complete Collected from the Abbeys of Touraine

Credits

Produced by John Bickers, Ian Hodgson, Dagny and Emma Dudding HTML version produced by David Widger

Language

English

LoC Class

PQ: Language and Literatures: Romance literatures: French, Italian, Spanish, Portuguese

Subject

Short stories, French -- Translations into English

Category

Text

eBook-No.

13260

Project Gutenberg

https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/13260

Release Date

August 23, 2004

Copyright

Public domain in the USA.

Contents

1. 1.DROLL STORIES — COLLECTED FROM THE ABBEYS OF TOURAINE
2. 2.Illustrated by Gustave Dore — Full Page Image -- Medium-Size — Full Page Image -- Medium-Size
3. 3.CONTENTS
4. 4.TRANSLATORS PREFACE
5. 5.VOLUME I — THE FIRST TEN TALES — Full Page Image -- Medium-Size
6. 6.PROLOGUE
7. 7.THE FAIR IMPERIA — Full Page Image -- Medium-Size
8. 8.THE VENIAL SIN — HOW THE GOOD MAN BRUYN TOOK A WIFE. — HOW THE SENESCHAL STRUGGLED WITH HIS WIFE’S MODESTY. — Full Page Image -- Medium-Size — THAT WHICH IS ONLY A VENIAL SIN. — HOW AND BY WHOM THE SAID CHILD WAS PROCURED. — HOW THE SAID LOVE-SIN WAS REPENTED OF AND LED TO GREAT MOURNING. — Full Page Image -- Medium-Size
9. 9.THE KING’S SWEETHEART — Full Page Image -- Medium-Size — Full Page Image -- Medium-Size
10. 10.THE DEVIL’S HEIR — Full Page Image -- Medium-Size
11. 11.THE MERRIE JESTS OF KING LOUIS THE ELEVENTH — Full Page Image -- Medium-Size — Full Page Image -- Medium-Size
12. 12.THE HIGH CONSTABLE’S WIFE — Full Page Image -- Medium-Size — Full Page Image -- Medium-Size
13. 13.THE MAID OF THILOUSE — Full Page Image -- Medium-Size
14. 14.THE BROTHERS-IN-ARMS
15. 15.THE VICAR OF AZAY-LE-RIDEAU
16. 16.THE REPROACH
17. 17.EPILOGUE — Full Page Image -- Medium-Size
18. 18.VOLUME II — THE SECOND TEN TALES
19. 19.PROLOGUE — Full Page Image -- Medium-Size
20. 20.THE THREE CLERKS OF ST. NICHOLAS
21. 21.THE CONTINENCE OF KING FRANCIS THE FIRST — Full Page Image -- Medium-Size
22. 22.THE MERRY TATTLE OF THE NUNS OF POISSY
23. 23.HOW THE CHATEAU D’AZAY CAME TO BE BUILT — Full Page Image -- Medium-Size
24. 24.THE FALSE COURTESAN
25. 25.THE DANGER OF BEING TOO INNOCENT
26. 26.THE DEAR NIGHT OF LOVE — Full Page Image -- Medium-Size
27. 27.THE SERMON OF THE MERRY VICAR OF MEUDON
28. 28.THE SUCCUBUS
29. 29.Prologue — Full Page Image -- Medium-Size — PETITION — TOURNEBOUCHE. — PETITION — HIEROME CORNILLE. — JEHAN DE LA HAYE.
30. 30.DESPAIR IN LOVE
31. 31.EPILOGUE
32. 32.VOLUME III
33. 33.THE THIRD TEN TALES
34. 34.PROLOGUE
35. 35.PERSEVERANCE IN LOVE — Full Page Image -- Medium-Size
36. 36.CONCERNING A PROVOST WHO DID NOT RECOGNISE THINGS — Full Page Image -- Medium-Size
37. 37.ABOUT THE MONK AMADOR, WHO WAS A GLORIOUS ABBOT OF TURPENAY
38. 38.BERTHA THE PENITENT — Full Page Image -- Medium-Size
39. 39.HOW THE PRETTY MAID OF PORTILLON CONVINCED HER JUDGE
40. 40.IN WHICH IT IS DEMONSTRATED THAT FORTUNE IS ALWAYS FEMININE
41. 41.CONCERNING A POOR MAN WHO WAS CALLED LE VIEUX PAR-CHEMINS — Full Page Image -- Medium-Size
42. 42.ODD SAYINGS OF THREE PILGRIMS
43. 43.INNOCENCE
44. 44.THE FAIR IMPERIA MARRIED
45. 45.EPILOGUE — Full Page Image -- Medium-Size

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