Droll stories : collected from the abbeys of Touraine /
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Table of Contents:
- 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.