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Author | Jean de La Fontaine |
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Language | French |
Genre | Ribaldry |
Publisher | Claude Barbin |
Publication date | 1665 |
Publication place | France |
Published in English | 1735 |
Media type | |
Pages | 94 |
OCLC | 458206970 |
Preceded by | Parution des deux premiers contes: Joconde, et Le cocu battu et content |
Followed by | 3 contes: Les frères de Catalogne, l'Ermite et Mazet de Lamporechio |
Contes et nouvelles en vers (English: Tales and Novellas in Verse) is an anthology of various ribald short stories and novellas collected and versified from prose by Jean de La Fontaine. Claude Barbin of Paris published the collection in 1665.
La Fontaine drew from several French and Italian works of the 15th and 16th centuries, among them The Decameron of Giovanni Boccaccio, Ludovico Ariosto's Orlando Furioso, Antoine de la Sale's collection Cent Nouvelles Nouvelles, and the work of Bonaventure des Périers.
Book 1
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Book 2
This article needs additional citations for
verification. (October 2011) |
![]() Illustration by Charles Eisen for the poem "The Devil of Pope-Fig Island" | |
Author | Jean de La Fontaine |
---|---|
Language | French |
Genre | Ribaldry |
Publisher | Claude Barbin |
Publication date | 1665 |
Publication place | France |
Published in English | 1735 |
Media type | |
Pages | 94 |
OCLC | 458206970 |
Preceded by | Parution des deux premiers contes: Joconde, et Le cocu battu et content |
Followed by | 3 contes: Les frères de Catalogne, l'Ermite et Mazet de Lamporechio |
Contes et nouvelles en vers (English: Tales and Novellas in Verse) is an anthology of various ribald short stories and novellas collected and versified from prose by Jean de La Fontaine. Claude Barbin of Paris published the collection in 1665.
La Fontaine drew from several French and Italian works of the 15th and 16th centuries, among them The Decameron of Giovanni Boccaccio, Ludovico Ariosto's Orlando Furioso, Antoine de la Sale's collection Cent Nouvelles Nouvelles, and the work of Bonaventure des Périers.
Book 1
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Book 2