Ceci n'est pas un conte by Denis Diderot
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"Ceci n'est pas un conte" by Denis Diderot is a philosophical dialogue written in 1772. Two contrasting stories explore the unpredictability of passion and love's refusal to obey reason. In the first tale, a devoted man sacrifices everything for an unworthy woman. The second reverses the pattern: a selfless woman loses all for an ungrateful lover. Through this mirrored structure, Diderot challenges readers to examine their own moral judgments and question whether
we can truly control matters of the heart. (This is an automatically generated summary.)
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| Author | Diderot, Denis, 1713-1784 |
|---|---|
| Editor | Assézat, Jules, 1832-1876 |
| Title | Ceci n'est pas un conte |
| Note | Wikipedia page about this book: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/This_Is_Not_a_Story |
| Note | Wikipedia page about this book: fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ceci_n%27est_pas_un_conte |
| Credits |
Produced by Laurent Vogel and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team at www.pgdp.net (This file was produced from images generously made available by the Bibliothèque nationale de France (BnF/Gallica) at gallica.bnf.fr) |
| Reading Level | Reading ease score: 81.3 (6th grade). Easy to read. |
| Language | French |
| LoC Class | PQ: Language and Literatures: Romance literatures: French, Italian, Spanish, Portuguese |
| Subject | Short stories, French |
| Subject | French fiction -- 18th century |
| Category | Text |
| eBook-No. | 28602 |
| ISBN (HTML) | 979-8-238-28602-0 |
| Release Date | Apr 25, 2009 |
| Last Update | Jan 4, 2021 |
| Copyright | Public domain in the USA. |
| Downloads | 385 downloads in the last 30 days. |
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