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Title

Droll stories : thirty tales / by Honoré de Balzac ; all now especially translated into modern English by Jacques Le Clercq ; and printed with illustrations by Boris Artzybasheff.

Author

Balzac, Honoré de, 1799-1850

Publication

New York : Heritage Press, c1939.

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Additional Authors

• Le Clercq, Jacques, 1898-1972
• Artzybasheff, Boris, 1899-1965
• Heritage Press (New York, N.Y.)

Description

xxvii, 507 p. : ill.; 24 cm.

Uniform Title

Contes drolatiques. English

Alternative Title

Contes drolatiques.

Subject

• Short stories, French > Translations into English
• France > Social life and customs > Fiction

Genre/Form

• Fiction
• Translations
• Short stories

Note

• Translation of Les contes drôliques.

Bibliography (note)

• Bibliography: p. [xxiii]

Processing Action (note)

• committed to retain

Contents

The fair Imperia -- The venial sin -- His majesty's sweetheart -- The devil's heir -- The merry jests of King Louis the Eleventh -- The Lord High Constable's lady -- The virgin of Thilhouse -- The brother-in-arms -- The Curé of Azay-Le-Rideau -- The wife's appeal -- The three clerks of St. Nicholas -- The privations of King Francis the First -- The airy tattle of the nuns of Poissy -- How the Chateau d'Azay came to be built -- The unauthentic courtesan -- The dangers of excessive innocence -- The costly night of love -- The jocund Curé of Meudon and his sermon -- The succubus -- Despair in love -- Perseverance in love -- Of the Provost's poor memory for things -- Of the monk Amador who was a glorious Abbot of Turpenay -- Bertha the penitent -- How the pretty maid of Portillon confounded her judge -- Which proves that fortune is always female -- Of a poor old man who had various names -- The inconsistent sayings of three pilgrims -- Ingenuousness -- The fair Imperia married.

OCLC

• 1883451
• SCSB-12082837

Owning Institutions

Harvard Library