Contes

The verses have not the golden ring of the "Contes" and the "Fables."

The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 13, No. 78, April, 1864 Various

However, whether she did not read the first dizain of the "Contes," which appeared in

Honore de Balzac, His Life and Writings

Three series of "Contes", the first six books of his "Fables", and

The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 8: Infamy-Lapparent 1840-1916 1913

In 1674 he published a new series of "Contes", which were seized by the lieutenant of police, and, in 1678, five books of "Fables", that Mme de Sévigné pronounced "divine".

The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 8: Infamy-Lapparent 1840-1916 1913

He was elected to the French Academy in 1683, but his election was suspended by Louis XIV, on account of the scandal of the "Contes", and finally approved only in the following year, after the poet had publicly atoned for his licentious works in a "Ballade" published in the "Mercure" (January, 1684), and had promised "to be good".

The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 8: Infamy-Lapparent 1840-1916 1913

The 'Contes' are thirty in number, divided into "dixains," each with its appropriate prologue and epilogue.

Library of the World's Best Literature, Ancient and Modern — Volume 3 Charles Dudley Warner 1864

[181] Von Wlislocki, p. 76; Campbell, vol.ii. p. 293; Luzel, "Contes," vol.i. pp. 198, 217; "Annuaire des Trad.

The Science of Fairy Tales An Inquiry into Fairy Mythology Edwin Sidney Hartland 1887

[35] Sébillot, "Contes," vol.ii. p. 34; "Revue des Trad.

The Science of Fairy Tales An Inquiry into Fairy Mythology Edwin Sidney Hartland 1887

Click on the image below to see a film about the shooting of her Contes Sauvages series.

Lovely photographs by Estelle Lagarde The Nag 2009

Jean François Guichard: Contes et fables, suivis de quelques mots de Piron, mis en vers, par Jean François Guichard (This Elibron Classics book is a facsimile reprint of a 1808 edition by Léopold Collin, Paris.)

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