TY - BOOK AU - Marguerite,Queen,consort of Henry II,King of Navarre AU - Le Roux de Lincy AU - Dunker,Balthasar Anton AU - Freudenberger,Sigmund AU - Saintsbury,George TI - The Tales of the Heptameron, Vol. 4 (of 5) AV - PQ PY - 2006/// CY - Salt Lake City, UT PB - Project Gutenberg KW - Love stories, French -- Translations into English KW - Tales -- France -- Translations into English N1 - Wikipedia page about this book: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Heptam%C3%A9ron; Preceded by vol III PG#17703 and followed by vol V PG#17705; Release date is 2006-02-07; Produced by David Widger; Originally published; London: The Society of English Bibliophilists, 1894 N2 - "The Tales of the Heptameron, Vol. 4 (of 5)" by Marguerite is a collection of stories published posthumously in 1558. Inspired by Boccaccio's Decameron, this frame narrative presents tales told by stranded travelers awaiting a bridge's completion. The stories explore love, lust, infidelity, and sexual intrigue, blending entertainment with moral complexity. Through witty dialogue and dramatic irony, characters debate virtue and vice while sharing provocative accounts of nobles, cuckolded spouses, and forbidden affairs that challenge Renaissance notions of honor and desire. (This is an automatically generated summary.) UR - https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/17704 ER -