Les Cent Contes drolatiques
Frontispiece by Gustave Doré for Les Contes Drolatiques, c. 1832 | |
| Editor | Charles Gosselin and Edmond Werdet |
|---|---|
| Author | Honoré de Balzac |
| Language | French |
| Genre | Short story collection |
Publication date | 1832–1837 |
| Publication place | France |
| Media type | Print (hardback & paperback) |
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 promises a hundred, only thirty were published, in groups of ten in 1832, 1833, and 1837.