Honoré de Balzac
Droll Stories — Complete
Collected from the Abbeys of Touraine
Published by Good Press, 2019
EAN 4057664101907
Table of Contents
PROLOGUE
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 MERRIE JESTS OF KING LOUIS THE ELEVENTH
THE HIGH CONSTABLE’S WIFE
VOLUME II
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 DANGER OF BEING TOO INNOCENT
THE SERMON OF THE MERRY VICAR OF MEUDON
CONCERNING A PROVOST WHO DID NOT RECOGNISE THINGS
ABOUT THE MONK AMADOR, WHO WAS A GLORIOUS ABBOT OF TURPENAY
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
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