Droll Stories by Honore de Balzac | 1928 | Garden City Publishing Edition | Bixley Shop Antique whether young or old

whether young or old

" From the preface

• Written by Marjorie Deen

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Droll Stories by Honore de Balzac | 1928 | Garden City Publishing Edition | Bixley Shop Antique whether young or oldA beautiful edition of Balzac's Droll Stories published by Garden City Publishing in 1928. ABOUT DROLL STORIES (Courtesy of Wikipedia) Les Cent Contes drolatiques (French, 'The Hundred Facetious Tales'), usually translated Droll Stories, is a collection of humorous short stories by the French writer Honor de Balzac, based on Giovanni Boccaccio's The Decameron and influenced by Franois Rabelais. The stories are written in pastiche Renaissance French;