Droll Stories Collected from the Abbeys of Touraine Volume III : The Third Ten Tales

By De Balzac, Honore

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Title:	Droll Stories Collected from the Abbeys of Touraine Volume III : The Third Ten Tales
Author:	De Balzac, Honore
Volume:
Language:	English
Subject:	Fiction, Literature, Literature & drama
Collections:	Classic Literature Collection, Penn State University's Electronic Classics Series Collection
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Publisher:	Penn State University's Electronic Classics


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Excerpt
Excerpt: Certain persons have interrogated the author as to why there was such a demand for these tales that no year passes without his giving an installment of them, and why he has lately taken to writing commas mixed up with bad syllables, at which the ladies publicly knit their brows, and have put to him other questions of a like character.

Table of Contents
Contents PROLOGUE..................................................................................................................................... 4 PERSEVERANCE IN LOVE.......................................................................................................... 9 CONCERNING A PROVOST WHO DID NOT RECOGNISE THINGS............................. 25 ABOUT THE MONK AMADOR, WHO WAS A GLORIOUS ABBOT OF TURPENAY... 34 BERTHA THE PENITENT .......................................................................................................... 51 I HOW BERTHA REMAINED A MAIDEN IN THE MARRIED STATE ..................................................................... 51 II HOW BERTHA BEHAVED, KNOWING THE BUSINESS OF LOVE .................................................................... 59 III HORRIBLE CHASTISEMENT OF BERTHA AND EXPIATION OF THE SAME, WHO DIED PARDONED ..... 72 HOW THE PRETTY MAID OF PORTILLON CONVINCED HER JUDGE........................................................ 80 IN WHICH IT IS DEMONSTRATED THAT FORTUNE IS ALWAYS FEMININE ........... 86 CONCERNING A POOR MAN WHO WAS CALLED LE VIEUX PAR-CHEMINS........ 100 ODD SAYINGS OF THREE PILGRIMS ................................................................................. 108 INNOCENCE ............................................................................................................................... 113 THE FAIR IMPERIA MARRIED.............................................................................................. 115 I HOW MADAME IMPERIA WAS CAUGHT BY THE VERY NET SHE WAS ACCUSTOMED TO SPREAD FOR HER LOVE-BIRDS.............................................................................................................................................. 115 II HOW THIS MARRIAGE ENDED .......................................................................................................................... 124 EPILOGUE................................................................................................................................... 132