01902cam a22003373u 4500 28602 UtSlPG 20260610133643.0 m cr n 260607r2009||||utu|||||o|||||||||||||| d UtSlPG fr iso639-1 PQ Diderot, Denis, 1713-1784 Ceci n'est pas un conte Salt Lake City, UT : Project Gutenberg, 2009 1 online resource : multiple file formats text txt rdacontent computer c rdamedia online resource cr rdacarrier Wikipedia page about this book: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/This_is_not_a_story Wikipedia page about this book: https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ceci_n%27est_pas_un_conte Release date is 2009-04-25 Produced by Laurent Vogel and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team at https://www.pgdp.net (This file was produced from images generously made available by the Bibliothèque nationale de France (BnF/Gallica) at http://gallica.bnf.fr) "Ceci n'est pas un conte" by Denis Diderot is a philosophical dialogue written in 1772. Two contrasting stories explore the unpredictability of passion and love's refusal to obey reason. In the first tale, a devoted man sacrifices everything for an unworthy woman. The second reverses the pattern: a selfless woman loses all for an ungrateful lover. Through this mirrored structure, Diderot challenges readers to examine their own moral judgments and question whether we can truly control matters of the heart. (This is an automatically generated summary.) Original publication data not identified Short stories, French French fiction -- 18th century Assézat, Jules, 1832-1876 https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/28602 69510 69510