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

Project Gutenberg

eBook-No. 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
3. 3.CONTENTS
4. 4.TRANSLATORS PREFACE
5. 5.VOLUME I — THE FIRST TEN TALES
6. 6.PROLOGUE
7. 7.THE FAIR IMPERIA
8. 8.THE VENIAL SIN — HOW THE GOOD MAN BRUYN TOOK A WIFE. — HOW THE SENESCHAL STRUGGLED WITH HIS WIFE’S MODESTY. — 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.
9. 9.THE KING’S SWEETHEART
10. 10.THE DEVIL’S HEIR
11. 11.THE MERRIE JESTS OF KING LOUIS THE ELEVENTH
12. 12.THE HIGH CONSTABLE’S WIFE
13. 13.THE MAID OF THILOUSE
14. 14.THE BROTHERS-IN-ARMS
15. 15.THE VICAR OF AZAY-LE-RIDEAU
16. 16.THE REPROACH
17. 17.EPILOGUE
18. 18.VOLUME II — THE SECOND TEN TALES
19. 19.PROLOGUE
20. 20.THE THREE CLERKS OF ST. NICHOLAS
21. 21.THE CONTINENCE OF KING FRANCIS THE FIRST
22. 22.THE MERRY TATTLE OF THE NUNS OF POISSY
23. 23.HOW THE CHATEAU D’AZAY CAME TO BE BUILT
24. 24.THE FALSE COURTESAN
25. 25.THE DANGER OF BEING TOO INNOCENT
26. 26.THE DEAR NIGHT OF LOVE
27. 27.THE SERMON OF THE MERRY VICAR OF MEUDON
28. 28.THE SUCCUBUS
29. 29.Prologue — 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
36. 36.CONCERNING A PROVOST WHO DID NOT RECOGNISE THINGS
37. 37.ABOUT THE MONK AMADOR, WHO WAS A GLORIOUS ABBOT OF TURPENAY
38. 38.BERTHA THE PENITENT
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
42. 42.ODD SAYINGS OF THREE PILGRIMS
43. 43.INNOCENCE
44. 44.THE FAIR IMPERIA MARRIED
45. 45.EPILOGUE

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