Les quinze joyes de mariage by Antoine de La Sale

"Les quinze joyes de mariage" by Antoine de La Sale is a satirical prose work published anonymously in the mid-15th century. Parodying a popular devotional text about the Virgin Mary's joys, this work presents fifteen darkly comic tableaux of marriage's "joys"—actually its terrible misfortunes. Through vivid dialogues and realistic scenes, it depicts cunning wives, foolish husbands, and the supreme tragedy of losing one's freedom to matrimony's trap. Written in a lively, conversational style, each chapter unfolds as a mini-story exposing the pitfalls of married life with ironic amusement. (This is an automatically generated summary.)

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Author La Sale, Antoine de, 1385?-1461?
Editor Jannet, Pierre, 1820-1870
Title Les quinze joyes de mariage
Conforme au manuscript de la bibliothèque publique de Rouen
Alternate Title Les quinze joies de mariage
Note Wikipedia page on this work: fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Les_Quinze_Joies_de_mariage
Credits Carlo Traverso, Laurent Vogel and the Distributed Proofreading team at DP-test Italia. (This file was produced from images generously made available by The Internet Archive/Canadian Libraries.)
Reading Level Reading ease score: 84.2 (6th grade). Easy to read.
Language French
LoC Class PQ: Language and Literatures: Romance literatures: French, Italian, Spanish, Portuguese
Subject Women -- Humor
Subject Marriage -- Humor
Subject Women -- Early works to 1800
Subject Marriage -- Early works to 1800
Subject Satire, French
Category Text
EBook-No. 65273
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Most Recently Updated Oct 18, 2024
Copyright Status Public domain in the USA.
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