Du Phoenix: 1059 books

Un soir, Jacques Parent fait au narrateur la démonstration de ses pouvoirs de psychokinèse...

Good friends, my readers, who peruse this book, Be not offended, whilst on it you look: Denude yourselves of all deprav'd affection, For it contains no badness nor infection: 'T is true that it brings forth to you no birth Of any value, but in point of mirth; Thinking therefore how sorrow might your...

Once upon a time there lived an old man and his wife in a dirty, tumble-down cottage, not very far from the splendid palace where the king and queen dwelt. In spite of the wretched state of the hut, which many people declared was too bad even for a pig to live in, the old man was very rich,...

Once upon a time, in a very hot country, a man lived with his wife in a little hut, which was surrounded by grass and flowers. They were perfectly happy together till, by-and-by, the woman fell ill and refused to take any food... 

Tous les auteurs d’Astrologie sont d’accord sur un point : « En ce monde inférieur, Dieu ordonne et les Astres exécutent. » Si le public connaissait exactement et parfaitement la nature intime de l’astrologie (mais peu d’hommes y parviennent...

Il y a des gens qui ignorent totalement la science des Astres, sont plongés dans les ténèbres de l’erreur et ne peuvent concevoir que ce qui tombe sous leurs sens...  Si le public connaissait exactement et parfaitement la nature intime de l’astrologie (mais peu...

Beaucoup de praticiens commettent des erreurs ils ne se trompent pas seulement eux-mêmes, ils déçoivent, par leurs fausses solutions, ceux qui les consultent. Aussi l’Astrologie n’est-elle souvent pas considérée comme une science... Si le public connaissait...

The fifth story relates two judgments of Lord Talbot. How a Frenchman was taken prisoner (though provided with a safe-conduct) by an Englishman, who said that buckle-straps were implements of war, and who was made to arm himself with buckle-straps and nothing else, and meet the Frenchman, who struck...

Of a young squire of Champagne who, when he married, had never mounted a Christian creature,much to his wife's regret. And of the method her mother found to instruct him, and how the said squire suddenly wept at a great feast that was made shortly after he had learned how to perform the carnal act as you will hear more plainly hereafter.

Of a Dutchman, who at all hours of the day and night ceased not to dally with his wife in love sports; and how it chanced that he laid her down, as they went through a wood, under a great tree in which was a labourer who had lost his calf. And as he was enumerating the charms of his wife, and...

Of a youth of Picardy who lived at Brussels, and made his master's daughter pregnant, and for that cause left and came back to Picardy to be married. And soon after his departure the girl's mother perceived the condition of her daughter, and the girl confessed in what state she was; so her...

Of a knight of Burgundy, who was marvellously amorous of one of his wife's waiting women, and thinking to sleep with her, slept with his wife who was in the bed of the said tire-woman. And how he caused, by his order, another knight, his neighbour to sleep with the said woman, believing that it was...

Once upon a time there was a youth called Moti, who was very big and strong, but the clumsiest creature you can imagine. So clumsy was he that he was always putting his great feet into the bowls of sweet milk or curds which his mother set out on the floor to cool, always smashing, upsetting,...

Of the deceit practised by a knight on a miller's wife whom he made believe that her front was loose, and fastened it many times. And the miller informed of this, searched for a diamond that the knight's lady had lost, and found it in her body, as the knight knew afterwards: so he called the miller "fisherman", and the miller called him "fastener".