Droll Stories — Complete eBook

Honoré de Balzac

Table of Contents
Section	Page

Start of eBook	1
THE FAIR IMPERIA	1
THE VENIAL SIN	10
HOW THE SENESCHAL STRUGGLED WITH HIS WIFE’S MODESTY.	18
THAT WHICH IS ONLY A VENIAL SIN.	24
HOW AND BY WHOM THE SAID CHILD WAS PROCURED.	28
HOW THE SAID LOVE-SIN WAS REPENTED OF AND LED TO GREAT MOURNING.	32
THE KING’S SWEETHEART	36
THE DEVIL’S HEIR	45
THE MERRIE JESTS OF KING LOUIS THE ELEVENTH	57
THE HIGH CONSTABLE’S WIFE	68
THE MAID OF THILOUSE	78
THE VICAR OF AZAY-LE-RIDEAU	92
THE REPROACH	98
EPILOGUE	105
CONTENTS	105
PROLOGUE	105
Prologue	173
	174
	186
PETITION	187
PETITION	195
EPILOGUE	213
CONTENTS	214
PROLOGUE	214
	258
THE FAIR IMPERIA MARRIED	301
	308
EPILOGUE	315

Copyrights

Droll Stories — Complete from Project Gutenberg. Public domain.