TY - BOOK AU - Diderot,Denis AU - Assézat,Jules TI - Ceci n'est pas un conte AV - PQ PY - 2009/// CY - Salt Lake City, UT PB - Project Gutenberg KW - Short stories, French KW - French fiction -- 18th century N1 - 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 N2 - "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.) UR - https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/28602 ER -