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...Prologue: Certain persons have reproached the Author for knowing no more about the language of the olden times than hares do of telling stories. Formerly these people would have been vilified, called cannibals, churls, and sycophants, and Gomorrah would have been hin...

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...Contents THE THREE CLERKS OF ST. NICHOLAS ................................................................................. 8 THE CONTINENCE OF KING FRANCIS THE FIRST............................................................ 19 THE ...

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...I: The Second T en T ales by Honore de Balzac Droll Stories Collected from the Abbeys of Touraine A Penn State Electronic Classics Series Publication ... ...nd T en T ales by Honore de Balzac Droll Stories Collected from the Abbeys of Touraine A Penn State Electronic Classics Series Publication Droll Stor... ...ublication Droll Stories: Volume Two by Honore de Balzac is a publication of the Pennsylvania State Univer- sity. This Portable Document file is furn... ...ication Droll Stories: Volume Two by Honore de Balzac is a publication of the Pennsylvania State Univer- sity. This Portable Document file is furnish... ... Menage, St. Evremonde, de Malherbe, and others, who first cleaned out the French language, sent foreign words to the rightabout, and gave the right o... ... host not having seen, although he kept his eyes 10 Balzac wide open, the royal surface of a crown, and knowing that if all that glittered were gold ... ...would not grant the king’s permission to any of his subjects, nor even the members of his family. It was therefore neces- sary to negotiate the depart... ... When the above mentioned captain came in his turn into the chamber of the French king, he asked him respectfully if it was his good pleasure to permi... ...ess of the state of his cassocks, mantles, and breeches, so that the naked members of the church were covered. He was so charitable that he would have...