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Droll Stories — Volume 2
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This second volume of Balzac's *Droll Stories* gathers bawdy, humorous tales set in medieval and Renaissance France, written in a deliberately archaic style imitating Rabelais. It suits readers of classic French literature and satirical historical fiction.
Honoré de Balzac
Honoré de Balzac was a French novelist and playwright. The novel sequence La Comédie humaine, described as a panorama of post-Napoleonic French life, is generally viewed as his magnum opus.
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