TY  - BOOK
AU  - Balzac,Honoré de
TI  - Droll Stories — Complete: Collected from the Abbeys of Touraine
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  - 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
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N2  - "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.)
UR  - https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/13260
ER  -