This version first published 1928.

Pagination re-starts after Volume I.

Volume I. The first ten tales : Prologue -- The fair Imperia -- The venial sin -- The king's sweetheart -- The devil's heir -- The merry jests of King Louis the Eleventh -- The high constable's wife -- The maid of Thilhouse -- The brother-in-arms -- The vicar of Azay-Le-Rideau -- The reproach -- Epilogue -- The second ten tales : Prologue -- The three clerks of St. Nicholas -- The continence of King Francis the First -- The merry tattle of the nuns of Poissy -- How the Chateau d'Azay came to be built -- The false courtesan -- The danger of being too innocent -- The dear night of love -- Volume II. The second ten tales (continued) : The sermon of the merry vicar of Meudon -- The succubus -- Despair in love -- Epilogue -- The third ten tales : Prologue -- Perseverance in love -- Concerning a provost who did not recognise things -- About the Monk Amador, who was a glorious Abbot of Turpenay -- Bertha the penitent -- How the pretty maid of Portillon convinced her judge -- In which it is demonstrated that fortune is always feminine -- Concerning a poor man who was called Le Vieux par-Chemins -- Odd sayins of three pilgrims -- Innocence -- The fair Imperia married -- Epilogue.

"Balzac's Contes Drolatiques, or Droll Stories, were originally published in three volumes in the 1830s. Set in medieval Europe, these stories were Balzac's attempt to write in the great tradition of Rabelais and Boccaccio, to render the Middle Ages with a touch of raunchy humor, and to provide a delightful portrait of medieval France. Balzac took the old themes that had delighted his ancestors--the tales of faithless wives and confiding husbands, of monks incredibly endowed for amorous athleticism, of lusty wenches and adventurous lads, and of great bouts of eating and drinking." -- Amazon.com

Translated from the French.