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Conte comes from the French word conter, "to relate". [2] The French term conte encompasses a wide range of narrative forms that are not limited to written accounts. No clear English equivalent for conte exists in English as it includes folktales, fairy tales, short stories, oral tales, [3] and to lesser extent fables. [4]
Conte de Noël Christmas Tale Le Gaulois 12/25/1882 Chronique Chronicle Le Gaulois 4/14/1884 Coco "Coco" Le Gaulois 1/21/1884 Coco, Coco, Coco frais ! Coco, Coco, Coco Fresh! The Mosaic 9/14/1878 Guy de Valmont La confession Confession Gil Blas 8/12/1884 Confession d’une femme A woman's confession Gil Blas 6/28/1882 Maufrigneuse La confidence
It is arguably his most famous short story and is the title story for his collection on the Franco-Prussian War, titled Boule de Suif et Autres Contes de la Guerre (Dumpling and Other Stories of the War).
The International Obfuscated C Code Contest (abbreviated IOCCC) is a computer programming contest for code written in C that is the most creatively obfuscated. Held semi-annually, it is described as "celebrating [C's] syntactical opaqueness". [1] The winning code for the 27th contest, held in 2020, was released in July 2020. [2]
Some critics use the label to refer only to non-supernatural horror stories, especially those that have nasty climactic twists, but it is applicable to any story whose conclusion exploits the cruel aspects of the 'irony of fate.' [1] The collection from which the short-story genre of the conte cruel takes its name is Contes cruels (1883, tr ...
Les Cent Contes drolatiques (French, 'The Hundred Facetious Tales'), usually translated Droll Stories, is a collection of humorous short stories by the French writer Honoré de Balzac, based on Giovanni Boccaccio's The Decameron and influenced by François Rabelais. The stories are written in pastiche Renaissance French; although the title ...
The 2005 world finals were held at Pudong Shangri-La Hotel in Shanghai on April 6, 2005, hosted by Shanghai Jiao Tong University. 4,109 teams representing 1,582 universities from 71 countries competed in elimination rounds, with 78 of those teams proceeding to the world finals.
The best of them is the Histoire de M. Guillaume, cocher (c. 1730). [2] His Contes, hovering between French fairy tales and oriental fantasies, between conventional charm and moral satire, have been collected and were published in 2005; [5] they were originally published as les Féeries nouvelles (1741), les Contes orientaux (1743), Cinq contes ...