Droll Stories — Volume 2
by Honoré de Balzac
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Language: English
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About this eBook
- Author
- Balzac, Honoré de, 1799-1850
- Credits
- Produced by John Bickers, Ian Hodgson, and Dagny
- 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.
- 2318
- Project Gutenberg
- https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/2318
- Release Date
- August 23, 2004
- Copyright
- Public domain in the USA.
Contents
- 1.DROLL STORIES
- 2.CONTENTS
- 3.SECOND TEN TALES — PROLOGUE — THE THREE CLERKS OF ST. NICHOLAS — THE CONTINENCE OF KING FRANCIS THE FIRST — THE MERRY TATTLE OF THE NUNS OF POISSY — HOW THE CHATEAU D'AZAY CAME TO BE BUILT — THE FALSE COURTESAN — HERE LIES BERTHA DE BOURGONGE THE NOBLE AND COMELY WIFE OF RAOUL, SIRE DE HOCQUETONVILLE. — THE DANGER OF BEING TOO INNOCENT — THE DEAR NIGHT OF LOVE — THE SERMON OF THE MERRY VICAR OF MEUDON — THE SUCCUBUS — I WHAT THE SUCCUBUS WAS. — II THE PROCEEDINGS TAKEN RELATIVE TO THIS FEMALE VAMPIRE. — PETITION — PETITION — III WHAT THE SUCCUBUS DID TO SUCK OUT THE SOUL OF THE OLD JUDGE, AND WHAT CAME OF THE DIABOLICAL DELECTATION. — IV HOW THE MOORISH WOMAN OF THE RUE CHAUDE TWISTED ABOUT SO BRISKLY THAT WITH GREAT DIFFICULTY WAS SHE BURNED AND COOKED ALIVE, TO THE GREAT LOSS OF THE INFERNAL REGIONS. — DESPAIR IN LOVE — EPILOGUE
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