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100 1 _aBalzac, Honoré de,
_d1799-1850
245 1 0 _aDroll Stories — Complete :
_bCollected from the Abbeys of Touraine
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 Composed of the following etexts, also available separately: Vol 1: #1925, Vol 2: #2318, & Vol 3: #2551
500 _aWikipedia page about this book: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Les_Cent_Contes_drolatiques
500 _aRelease date is 2004-08-23
508 _aProduced by John Bickers, Ian Hodgson, Dagny and Emma Dudding HTML version produced by David Widger
520 _a"Droll Stories — Complete" by Honoré de Balzac is a collection of humorous short stories published in three groups between 1832 and 1837. Inspired by Boccaccio's "Decameron" and written in pastiche Renaissance French, these ribald tales explore medieval and Renaissance France with startling directness and sexual frankness. Balzac envisioned one hundred stories but completed only thirty, creating what he called an "arabesque" around his serious fiction. The tales evoke a golden age of French character while offering provocative commentary on history, morality, and society through archaic language and remote settings. (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/13260
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