Droll stories / Honoré de Balzac. Contes drôlatiques. English Balzac, Honoré de, 1799-1850, author. Balzac, Honoré de, 1799-1850. Contes drôlatiques. English. 843.73 BAC This version first published 1928. Pagination re-starts after Volume I. "Balzac's Contes Drolatiques, or Droll Stories, were originally published in three volumes in the 1830s. Set in medieval Europe, these stories were Balzac's attempt to write in the great tradition of Rabelais and Boccaccio, to render the Middle Ages with a touch of raunchy humor, and to provide a delightful portrait of medieval France. Balzac took the old themes that had delighted his ancestors--the tales of faithless wives and confiding husbands, of monks incredibly endowed for amorous athleticism, of lusty wenches and adventurous lads, and of great bouts of eating and drinking." -- Amazon.com 2015 Text 557 pages : https://www.loc.gov/catdir/enhancements/fy1617/2015298921-b.html https://www.loc.gov/catdir/enhancements/fy1617/2015298921-d.html eng eng fre Translated from the French. France History Fiction. France. fast (OCoLC)fst01204289