Droll Stories by Honore de Balzac Fiction Literary Historical Short Stories

<p><strong>Already famous for his novels in the 1830s Honoré Balzac undertook a series of tales as full of human understanding as of dalliance and lusty conniving: the rowdy Rabelasian Droll Stories.</strong></p><p>Who does not love the warm attack of life . . . when it flows thus round the heart and engulfs everything? None know this better than the good old Canon of Notre Dame. Coming to Paris naked as a dagger he soon proves a favorite confessor to the ladies. Then a high-born beauty awards him a prize: the relic of a Saint . . . a bone the ladies say that will cure anything!</p><p>This omnibus volume includes all three books of Balzac's Droll Stories including the tales 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 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 The Succubus Despair in Love Perseverance in Love Concerning a Provost Who Did Not Recognize Things About the Monk Amador Who Was a Glorious Abbot of Turpenay and Bertha the Penitent.</p>