Droll stories : collected from the abbeys of Touraine /

Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Balzac, Honoré de, 1799-1850
Other Authors: Robida, Albert, 1848-1926
Format: Book
Language:English

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100 1 |a Balzac, Honoré de,  |d 1799-1850. 
240 1 0 |a Contes drôlatiques.  |l English 
245 1 0 |a Droll stories :  |b collected from the abbeys of Touraine /  |c translated into English with frontispiece by A. Robida. 
264 3 |a London :  |b Privately printed,  |c [between 1900 and 1999?] 
300 |a 348 pages, 1 unnumbered leaf of plates ;  |c 20 cm. 
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500 |a At head of title: Balzac's Contes drolatiques. 
505 0 |a First ten tales: Prologue -- Fair Imperia -- Venial sin: How the goodman Bruyn took a wife -- How the Seneschal struggled with his wife's modesty -- 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 -- King's sweetheart -- Devil's heir -- Merry jests of King Louis the Eleventh -- High constable's wife -- Maid of Thilouse -- Brother-in-arms -- Vicar of Azay-le-Rideau -- Reproach -- Epilogue -- Second ten tales: Prologue -- Three clerks of St. Nicholas -- Continence of King Francis the First -- Merry tattle of the Nuns of Poisy -- How the Chateau d'Azay came to be built -- False courtesan -- Dear night of love -- Succubus: Prologue -- What the Succubus was -- Proceedings taken relative to this female vampire -- What the Succubus did to suck out the soul of the old judge, and what came of the diabolical delectation -- How the Moorish woman of the Rue Chaude twisted about so briskly, that with great difficulty was she burned and cooked alive, to the great loss of the infernal regions -- Despair in love -- Third ten tales: Prologue -- Perseverance in love -- Concerning a Provost who did not recognize things -- Monk Amador, a glorious Abbot of Turpenay -- Bertha the penitent: How Berth remained a maiden in the married state -- How Bertha behaved, knowing the business of love -- Horrible chastisement of Bertha and expiation of the same, who died pardoned -- How the pretty maid of Portillon convinced her judge -- It is demonstrated that fortune is always feminine -- Fair Imperia married: How Madame Imperia was caught in the very net she was accustomed to spread for her love-birds -- How this marriage ended -- Epilogue. 
700 1 |a Robida, Albert,  |d 1848-1926. 
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