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Enric Sió did a regular series of what I guess might be called contes cruels.
DRACULA 2005
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Enric Sió did a regular series of what I guess might be called contes cruels.
Archive 2005-11-27 2005
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Enric Sió did a regular series of what I guess might be called contes cruels.
DRACULA 2005
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La Fontaine (1621-95), associated in a quadrumvirate with Boileau, Moliére, and Racine, published his best writing in his Contes (1664), described as contes pour rire (` humorous tales '); his Fables (1668), based on the fables of Aesop and others, are considered less worthy, though the second edition (1678) was described as "divine" by Mme. de Sévigné, no mean critic.
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We must not omit to mention also many 'contes' and his 'Trente ans de
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His 'Contes en prose' and his 'Vingt Contes Nouveaux' are gracefully and artistically told; scarcely one of the 'contes' fails to have a moral motive.
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He was familiar with quite a large number of Latin and Greek indecent passages, knew the broader farces of the _Canterbury Tales_ and of the _Decameron_, and, later, the 'contes' of La Fontaine and the _Facetiæ_ of
Studies in the Psychology of Sex, Volume 3 Analysis of the Sexual Impulse; Love and Pain; The Sexual Impulse in Women Havelock Ellis 1899
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'Contes en prose' and his 'Vingt Contes Nouveaux' are gracefully and artistically told; scarcely one of the 'contes' fails to have a moral motive.
A Romance of Youth — Complete Fran��ois Copp��e 1875
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We must not omit to mention also many 'contes' and his 'Trente ans de
Fromont and Risler — Complete Alphonse Daudet 1868
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Us envio the dos contes: un molt borgi i molt filosfic -; l'altre, estrany the la seva obra.
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