Les contes drôlatiques

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First Sentence

"Certain persons have reproached the Author for knowing no more about the language of the olden times than hares do of telling stories."

Description

A collection of stories with a mediaeval theme rather after the style of Rabelais. Early editions were illustrated by Gustav Dore and were published by Garnier Freres of Paris. The stories range from the absurd to the downright grim but the illustrations give them a life of their own. Rather off-putting to the reader used to modern French, the stories are written in an archaic French that is not always easy to interpret.