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The "Contes et nouvelles en vers" are the fruit of the author's wicked delight in the tales he found in Boccacio's "Decameron", Ariosto's "Orlando Furioso", Rabelais and elsewhere. Marital misdemeanours, resourceful females, addled males, proved the inspiration for some richly inventive plotting.

Complete Tales in Verse Contes Et Nouvelles En

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    A Paperback by Jean de La Fontaine

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      Publisher: Carcanet Press Ltd
      Publication Date: 11/2/2000
      ISBN13: 9781857544824, 978-1857544824
      ISBN10: 185754482X

      Description

      Book Synopsis
      The "Contes et nouvelles en vers" are the fruit of the author's wicked delight in the tales he found in Boccacio's "Decameron", Ariosto's "Orlando Furioso", Rabelais and elsewhere. Marital misdemeanours, resourceful females, addled males, proved the inspiration for some richly inventive plotting.

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