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100 1 _aBalzac, Honoré de,
_d1799-1850
245 1 0 _aDroll Stories — Volume 1
264 1 _aSalt Lake City, UT :
_bProject Gutenberg,
_c2004
300 _a1 online resource :
_bmultiple file formats
336 _atext
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337 _acomputer
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338 _aonline resource
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500 _aTranslation of: Les contes drôlatiques See also: Vol 2: #2318, Vol 3: #2551, and the complete work #13260
500 _aWikipedia page about this book: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Les_Cent_Contes_drolatiques
500 _aRelease date is 2004-08-23
505 0 _aThe fair Imperia -- The venial sin -- The king's sweetheart -- The devil's heir -- The merrie jests of King Louis the Eleventh -- The high constable's wife -- The maid of Thilouse -- The brothers-in-arms -- The vicar of Azay-le-Rideau -- The reproach.
508 _aProduced by Ian Hodgson, and Dagny
520 _a"Droll Stories — Volume 1" by Honoré de Balzac is a collection of humorous short stories published in groups between 1832-1837. Written in pastiche Renaissance French, these ribald tales are set in medieval and Renaissance France, inspired by Boccaccio's Decameron and Rabelais. Balzac aimed to capture a golden age of French character while addressing moral and political issues through sexually charged, sometimes obscene narratives. The archaic language creates both startling directness and distance, allowing bold treatment of provocative themes that scandalized contemporary critics. (This is an automatically generated summary.)
534 _nOriginal publication data not identified
653 _aHumorous stories
653 _aFrench literature -- 19th century
653 _aFrance -- Social life and customs -- Fiction
653 _aShort stories, French -- Translations into English
856 4 0 _uhttps://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/1925
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