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? |
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| 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 |
| Release Date | May 7, 2021 |
| Most Recently Updated | Oct 18, 2024 |
| Copyright Status | Public domain in the USA. |
| Downloads | 300 downloads in the last 30 days. |
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