Droll Stories — Complete / Collected from the Abbeys of Touraine
by Honoré de Balzac
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Contents
- Translators Preface
- Prologue
- The Fair Imperia
- The Venial Sin
- The King’s Sweetheart
- The Devil’s Heir
- The Merrie Jests of King Louis the Eleventh
- The High Constable’s Wife
- The Maid of Thilouse
- The Brothers-in-Arms
- The Vicar of Azay-Le-Rideau
- The Reproach
- Epilogue
- Prologue
- The Three Clerks of St. Nicholas
- The Continence of King Francis the First
- The Merry Tattle of the Nuns of Poissy
- How the Chateau D’Azay Came to Be Built
- The False Courtesan
- The Danger of Being Too Innocent
- The Dear Night of Love
- The Sermon of the Merry Vicar of Meudon
- Prologue
- Despair in Love
- Epilogue
- Prologue
- Perseverance in Love
- Concerning a Provost Who Did Not Recognise Things
- About the Monk Amador, Who Was a Glorious Abbot of Turpenay
- Bertha the Penitent
- 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
- Odd Sayings of Three Pilgrims
- Innocence
- The Fair Imperia Married
- Epilogue