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       Honoré de Balzac

      Droll Stories — Complete

      Collected from the Abbeys of Touraine

      Published by Good Press, 2019

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      EAN 4057664101907

       TRANSLATORS PREFACE

       VOLUME I

       THE FIRST TEN TALES

       PROLOGUE

       THE FAIR IMPERIA

       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.

       THE KING’S SWEETHEART

       THE DEVIL’S HEIR

       THE MERRIE JESTS OF KING LOUIS THE ELEVENTH

       THE HIGH CONSTABLE’S WIFE

       THE MAID OF THILOUSE

       THE BROTHERS-IN-ARMS

       THE VICAR OF AZAY-LE-RIDEAU

       THE REPROACH

       EPILOGUE

       VOLUME II

       THE 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

       THE DANGER OF BEING TOO INNOCENT

       THE DEAR NIGHT OF LOVE

       THE SERMON OF THE MERRY VICAR OF MEUDON

       THE SUCCUBUS

       Prologue

       PETITION

       TOURNEBOUCHE.

       PETITION

       HIEROME CORNILLE.

       JEHAN DE LA HAYE.

       DESPAIR IN LOVE

       EPILOGUE

       VOLUME III

       THE THIRD TEN TALES

       PROLOGUE

       PERSEVERANCE 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

       EPILOGUE

      

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