TY  - BOOK
AU  - Balzac,Honoré de
TI  - Droll Stories — Volume 2
AV  - PQ 
PY  - 2004///
CY  - Salt Lake City, UT
PB  - Project Gutenberg
KW  - Humorous stories
KW  - French literature -- 19th century
KW  - France -- Social life and customs -- Fiction
KW  - Short stories, French -- Translations into English
N1  - Wikipedia page about this book: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Les_Cent_Contes_drolatiques; Translation of: Les contes drôlatiques
 See also: Vol 1: #1925, Vol 3: #2551, and the complete work #13260; Release date is 2004-08-23; The three clerks of Saint 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 -- Despair in love; Produced by John Bickers, Ian Hodgson, and Dagny; Original publication data not identified
N2  - "Droll Stories — Volume 2" by Honoré de Balzac is a collection of humorous short stories published in 1833. This second group of ten tales continues Balzac's bawdy reimagining of medieval and Renaissance France, written in pastiche archaic French. Inspired by Boccaccio and Rabelais, these ribald stories grow increasingly dark, turning on characters being duped and tormented. Balzac intended them as a celebration of French national character before prudery, though critics found them indecent and scandalous. They remain his most experimental and controversial work. (This is an automatically generated summary.)
UR  - https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/2318
ER  -