02091cam a22003613u 4500 13260 UtSlPG 20260610133320.0 m cr n 260607r2004||||utu|||||o|||||||||||||| d UtSlPG en iso639-1 PQ Balzac, Honoré de, 1799-1850 Droll Stories — Complete : Collected from the Abbeys of Touraine Salt Lake City, UT : Project Gutenberg, 2004 1 online resource : multiple file formats text txt rdacontent computer c rdamedia online resource cr rdacarrier Translation of: Les contes drôlatiques Composed of the following etexts, also available separately: Vol 1: #1925, Vol 2: #2318, & Vol 3: #2551 Wikipedia page about this book: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Les_Cent_Contes_drolatiques Release date is 2004-08-23 Produced by John Bickers, Ian Hodgson, Dagny and Emma Dudding HTML version produced by David Widger "Droll Stories — Complete" by Honoré de Balzac is a collection of humorous short stories published in three groups between 1832 and 1837. Inspired by Boccaccio's "Decameron" and written in pastiche Renaissance French, these ribald tales explore medieval and Renaissance France with startling directness and sexual frankness. Balzac envisioned one hundred stories but completed only thirty, creating what he called an "arabesque" around his serious fiction. The tales evoke a golden age of French character while offering provocative commentary on history, morality, and society through archaic language and remote settings. (This is an automatically generated summary.) Original publication data not identified Humorous stories French literature -- 19th century France -- Social life and customs -- Fiction Short stories, French -- Translations into English https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/13260 54650 54650