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Contes et nouvelles en vers (English: Tales and Novellas in Verse) is an anthology of various ribald short stories and novellas collected and versified from prose by Jean de La Fontaine. Claude Barbin of Paris published the collection in 1665.
His works include: Contes populaires des anciens Bretons (1842), to which was prefixed an essay on the origin of the romances of the Round Table; Essai sur l'histoire de la langue bretonne (1837); Poèmes des bardes bretons du sixième siècle (1850); La Légende celtique en Irlande, en Cambrie et en Bretagne (1859).
A conte is generally longer than a short story but shorter than a novel. [2] In this sense, contes can be called novellas. [6] Contes are contrasted with short stories not only in length but subject matter. Whereas short stories (nouvelles) are about recent ("novel") events, contes tend to be either fairy tales or philosophical stories. [7]
The cat turned into a woman (La chatte métamorphosée en femme, II.18) The coach and the fly (Le coche et la mouche, VII.9) The Cobbler and the Financier (Le savetier et le financier, VIII.2) The cock and the fox (Le coq et le renard, II.15) The cock and the pearl (Le coq et la perle, I.20) Death and the woodman (La Mort et le bûcheron, I.16)
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 ...
Contes cruels (Cruel Tales) is a two-volume set of about 150 tales and short stories by the 19th-century French writer Octave Mirbeau, collected and edited by Pierre Michel and Jean-François Nivet and published in two volumes in 1990 by Librairie Séguier.
Tales for All (French: Contes pour tous) is a series of children and family films produced by the company Les Productions la Fête. These films were also published as books. The series was officially launched in 1984, although it retroactively incorporated one film that founder Rock Demers had previously produced in the 1970s.
Eleanor's Secret (original French title Kérity, la maison des contes) is a 2009 French-Italian animated feature film directed by Dominique Monféry.The film tells the story of a young boy who must save a group of fairy tale characters that have come to life.