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Droll Stories
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Author : Honore de Balzac
language : en
Publisher: Courier Corporation
Release Date : 2014-10-13
Droll Stories written by Honore de Balzac and has been published by Courier Corporation this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2014-10-13 with Fiction categories.
Thirty stories offer a lively and lusty portrait of 16th-century French life and manners. Balzac's fables recall the tradition of Boccaccio and Rabelais, abounding in episodes of good-humored licentiousness.
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Author : Balzac Honore de
language : en
Publisher: Xist Publishing
Release Date : 2015-07-30
Droll Stories written by Balzac Honore de and has been published by Xist Publishing this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2015-07-30 with Fiction categories.
30 Short Stories about Medieval France In the Droll Stories, Honore de Balzac takes the reader back in time, in Medieval France when knights and kings ruled the land. Yes, they were brave and wise but also droll, naïve and lustful. Follow their adventure and see them with Balzac’s eyes: comical and human after all. This Xist Classics edition has been professionally formatted for e-readers with a linked table of contents. This eBook also contains a bonus book club leadership guide and discussion questions. We hope you’ll share this book with your friends, neighbors and colleagues and can’t wait to hear what you have to say about it.
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Author : Honore de Balzac
language : en
Publisher: Courier Dover Publications
Release Date : 2019-01-16
Droll Stories written by Honore de Balzac and has been published by Courier Dover Publications this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2019-01-16 with Fiction categories.
A scandal to Balzac's contemporaries and a delight for modern readers, these selections offer a lively, lusty portrait of 16th-century French life in the tradition of Boccaccio, Chaucer, and Rabelais.
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Author : Honoré de Balzac
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1900
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Droll Stories Volume 1
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Author : Оноре де Бальзак
language : en
Publisher: Litres
Release Date : 2021-03-16
Droll Stories Volume 1 written by Оноре де Бальзак and has been published by Litres this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2021-03-16 with Fiction categories.
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Author : Honore de Balzac
language : en
Publisher: BoD – Books on Demand
Release Date : 2019-09-25
Droll Stories written by Honore de Balzac and has been published by BoD – Books on Demand this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2019-09-25 with Fiction categories.
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Author : Droll Stories
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2021-09
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1932. Balzac was originally trained as a lawyer before deciding his dream was to become a writer. He is now regarded as one of the creators of realism in literature and his huge production of novels and short stories are collected under the name La Comedie Humaine.
Droll Stories Collected From The Abbeys Of Touraine Complete
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Author : Honore de Balzac
language : en
Publisher: Library of Alexandria
Release Date : 2020-09-28
Droll Stories Collected From The Abbeys Of Touraine Complete written by Honore de Balzac and has been published by Library of Alexandria this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2020-09-28 with Fiction categories.
The Archbishop of Bordeaux had added to his suite when going to the Council at Constance quite a good-looking little priest of Touraine whose ways and manner of speech was so charming that he passed for a son of La Soldee and the Governor. The Archbishop of Tours had willingly given him to his confrere for his journey to that town, because it was usual for archbishops to make each other presents, they well knowing how sharp are the itchings of theological palms. Thus this young priest came to the Council and was lodged in the establishment of his prelate, a man of good morals and great science. Philippe de Mala, as he was called, resolved to behave well and worthily to serve his protector, but he saw in this mysterious Council many men leading a dissolute life and yet not making less, nay —gaining more indulgences, gold crowns and benefices than all the other virtuous and well-behaved ones. Now during one night—dangerous to his virtue—the devil whispered into his ear that he should live more luxuriously, since every one sucked the breasts of our Holy Mother Church and yet they were not drained, a miracle which proved beyond doubt the existence of God. And the priest of Touraine did not disappoint the devil. He promised to feast himself, to eat his bellyful of roast meats and other German delicacies, when he could do so without paying for them as he was poor. As he remained quite continent (in which he followed the example of the poor old archbishop who sinned no longer because he was unable to, and passed for a saint,) he had to suffer from intolerable desires followed by fits of melancholy, since there were so many sweet courtesans, well developed, but cold to the poor people, who inhabited Constance, to enlighten the understanding of the Fathers of the Council. He was savage that he did not know how to make up to these gallant sirens, who snubbed cardinals, abbots, councillors, legates, bishops, princes and margraves just as if they have been penniless clerks. And in the evening, after prayers, he would practice speaking to them, teaching himself the breviary of love. He taught himself to answer all possible questions, but on the morrow if by chance he met one of the aforesaid princesses dressed out, seated in a litter and escorted by her proud and well-armed pages, he remained open-mouthed, like a dog in the act of catching flies, at the sight of sweet countenance that so much inflamed him. The secretary of a Monseigneur, a gentleman of Perigord, having clearly explained to him that the Fathers, procureurs, and auditors of the Rota bought by certain presents, not relics or indulgences, but jewels and gold, the favour of being familiar with the best of these pampered cats who lived under the protection of the lords of the Council; the poor Touranian, all simpleton and innocent as he was, treasured up under his mattress the money given him by the good archbishop for writings and copying—hoping one day to have enough just to see a cardinal’s lady-love, and trusting to God for the rest. He was hairless from top to toe and resembled a man about as much as a goat with a night-dress on resembles a young lady, but prompted by his desires he wandered in the evenings through the streets of Constance, careless of his life, and, at the risk of having his body halberded by the soldiers, he peeped at the cardinals entering the houses of their sweethearts. Then he saw the wax-candles lighted in the houses and suddenly the doors and the windows closed.
Balzac S Contes Drolatiques Droll Stories Collected From The Abbeys Of Touraine
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Author : Gustave Doré
language : en
Publisher: Legare Street Press
Release Date : 2023-07-18
Balzac S Contes Drolatiques Droll Stories Collected From The Abbeys Of Touraine written by Gustave Doré and has been published by Legare Street Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2023-07-18 with categories.
Balzac's Contes Drolatiques is a collection of bawdy and satirical short stories written by the French author Honore de Balzac. This edition features illustrations by the celebrated artist Gustave Doré. The stories are set in medieval France and poke fun at the social norms and conventions of the time. It is a hilarious and irreverent masterpiece of French literature. This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it. This work is in the "public domain in the United States of America, and possibly other nations. Within the United States, you may freely copy and distribute this work, as no entity (individual or corporate) has a copyright on the body of the work. Scholars believe, and we concur, that this work is important enough to be preserved, reproduced, and made generally available to the public. We appreciate your support of the preservation process, and thank you for being an important part of keeping this knowledge alive and relevant.
Droll Stories Les Contes Drolatiques Dodo Press
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Author : Honoré de Balzac
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2006-04
Droll Stories Les Contes Drolatiques Dodo Press written by Honoré de Balzac and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2006-04 with Fiction categories.
A collection of humorous stories. By the French author, who, along with Flaubert, is generally regarded as a founding-father of realism in European fiction. His large output of works, collectively entitled The Human Comedy (La Comedie Humaine), consists of 95 finished works (stories, novels and essays) and 48 unfinished works. His stories are an attempt to comprehend and depict the realities of life in contemporary bourgeois France. They are placed in a variety of settings, with characters reappearing in multiple stories.