Diderot, Denis 1713-1784 creator Assézat, Jules 1832-1876 text utu 2009 monographic fr 1 online resource : multiple file formats "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.) 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) Original publication data not identified Short stories, French French fiction -- 18th century PQ Original publication data not identified https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/28602 https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/28602 UtSlPG 260607 20260610133643.0 28602