The Tales of the Heptameron, Vol. 4 (of 5)
by King of Navarre consort of Henry II Queen Marguerite
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In the early 1500s five men and five women find themselves trapped by floods and compelled to take refuge in an abbey high in the Pyrenees. When told they must wait days for a bridge to be repaired, they are inspired - by recalling Boccaccio's Decameron - to pass the time in a cultured manner by each telling a story every day. The stories, however, soon degenerate into a verbal battle between the sexes, as the characters weave tales of corrupt friars, adulterous noblemen and deceitful wives. From the cynical Saffredent to the young idealist Dagoucin or the moderate Parlamente - believed to exp...
Chapters (55)
- THE TALES OF THE HEPTAMERON OF Margaret, Queen of Navarre
- Newly Translated into English from the Authentic Text OF M. LE ROUX DE LINCY WITH AN ESSAY UPON THE HEPTAMERON BY GEORGE SAINTSBURY, M.A. Also the Original Seventy-three Full Page Engravings Designed by S. FREUDENBERG And One Hundred and Fifty Head and Tail Pieces By DUNKER IN FIVE VOLUMES
- VOLUME THE FOURTH
- LONDON: PRINTED FOR THE SOCIETY OF ENGLISH BIBLIOPHILISTS MDCCCXCIV
- [Margaret, Queen of Navarre, from a crayon drawing by Clouet, preserved at the Bibliothèque Nationale, Paris]
- List of Illustrations
- DETAILED CONTENTS OF VOLUME IV.
- FOURTH DAY.
- PROLOGUE.
- [The Wicked Friar Captured]
- TALE XXXI.
- [Bernage observing the German Lady’s Strange Penance]
- TALE XXXII.
- [The Execution of the Wicked Priest and his Sister]
- TALE XXXIII.
- [The Grey Friar imploring the Butcher to Spare his Life]
- TALE XXXIV.
- [The Lady embracing the Supposed Friar]
- TALE XXXV.
- [The Clerk entreating Forgiveness of the President]
- TALE XXXVI.
- [The Lady of Loué bringing her Husband the Basin of Water]
- TALE XXXVII.
- [The Lady of Tours questioning her Husband’s Mistress]
- TALE XXXVIII.
- [The Lord of Grignaulx catching the Pretended Ghost]
- TALE XXXIX.
- [The Count of Jossebelin murdering his Sister’s Husband]
- TALE XL.
- FIFTH DAY.
- PROLOGUE.
- [The Beating of the Wicked Grey Friar]
- TALE XLI.
- [The Girl refusing the Gift of the Young Prince]
- TALE XLII.
- [Jambicque repudiating her Lover]
- TALE XLIII.
- TALE XLIV.(A).
- [The Lovers returning from their Meeting in the Garden]
- TALE XLIV. (B).
- [The Man of Tours and his Serving-maid in the Snow]
- TALE XLV.
- TALE XLVI. (A).
- [The Young Man beating his Wife]
- TALE XLVI.(B).
- [The Gentleman reproaching his Friend for his Jealousy]
- TALE XLVII.
- [The Grey Friars Caught and Punished]
- TALE XLVIII.
- [The Countess facing her Lovers]
- TALE XLIX.
- [The Lady killing herself on the Death of her Lover]
- TALE L.
- APPENDIX.
- A. (Tale XXXVI., Page 63.)
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