Droll Stories — Complete / Collected from the Abbeys of Touraine
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Chapters (82)
- DROLL STORIES
- COLLECTED FROM THE ABBEYS OF TOURAINE
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- CONTENTS
- TRANSLATORS PREFACE
- VOLUME I
- THE FIRST TEN TALES
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- PROLOGUE
- THE FAIR IMPERIA
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- THE VENIAL SIN
- HOW THE GOOD MAN BRUYN TOOK A WIFE.
- HOW THE SENESCHAL STRUGGLED WITH HIS WIFE’S MODESTY.
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- THAT WHICH IS ONLY A VENIAL SIN.
- HOW AND BY WHOM THE SAID CHILD WAS PROCURED.
- HOW THE SAID LOVE-SIN WAS REPENTED OF AND LED TO GREAT MOURNING.
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- THE KING’S SWEETHEART
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- THE DEVIL’S HEIR
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- THE MERRIE JESTS OF KING LOUIS THE ELEVENTH
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- THE HIGH CONSTABLE’S WIFE
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- THE MAID OF THILOUSE
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- THE BROTHERS-IN-ARMS
- THE VICAR OF AZAY-LE-RIDEAU
- THE REPROACH
- EPILOGUE
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- VOLUME II
- THE SECOND TEN TALES
- PROLOGUE
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- THE THREE CLERKS OF ST. NICHOLAS
- THE CONTINENCE OF KING FRANCIS THE FIRST
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- THE MERRY TATTLE OF THE NUNS OF POISSY
- HOW THE CHATEAU D’AZAY CAME TO BE BUILT
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- THE FALSE COURTESAN
- THE DANGER OF BEING TOO INNOCENT
- THE DEAR NIGHT OF LOVE
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- THE SERMON OF THE MERRY VICAR OF MEUDON
- THE SUCCUBUS
- Prologue
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- PETITION
- TOURNEBOUCHE.
- PETITION
- HIEROME CORNILLE.
- JEHAN DE LA HAYE.
- DESPAIR IN LOVE
- EPILOGUE
- VOLUME III
- THE THIRD TEN TALES
- PROLOGUE
- PERSEVERANCE IN LOVE
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- CONCERNING A PROVOST WHO DID NOT RECOGNISE THINGS
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- ABOUT THE MONK AMADOR, WHO WAS A GLORIOUS ABBOT OF TURPENAY
- BERTHA THE PENITENT
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- HOW THE PRETTY MAID OF PORTILLON CONVINCED HER JUDGE
- IN WHICH IT IS DEMONSTRATED THAT FORTUNE IS ALWAYS FEMININE
- CONCERNING A POOR MAN WHO WAS CALLED LE VIEUX PAR-CHEMINS
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- ODD SAYINGS OF THREE PILGRIMS
- INNOCENCE
- THE FAIR IMPERIA MARRIED
- EPILOGUE
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