This text's characters include Roncex, who screams after sitting on some dung in an outhouse, causing the servant La Mothe to think she is being "ravished.
This book describes how a vengeful gentleman once locked his wife in a room with a cabinet full of bones and forced her to drink from a skull that had its eye sockets plugged with silver. This text's characters include Roncex, who screams after sitting on some dung in an outhouse, causing the servant La Mothe to think she is being "ravished." In this book, a woman punishes her impious son by doing the bed trick on him and getting pregnant, then later having him unwittingly marry the daughter born from that night many years later. This book, which was originally titled Tales of Fortunate Lovers, is largely narrated by a group in the Abbey of Our Lady who wait for a bridge to be built. Francois Rabelais so admired this book's author that he dedicated the third book of Gargantua and Pantagruel to her. For 10 points, name this collection of 72 bawdy tales by Marguerite de Navarre.
This book describes how a vengeful gentleman once locked his wife in a room with a cabinet full of bones and forced her to drink from a skull that had its eye sockets plugged with silver.
Heptameron [or Tales of Fortunate Lovers before “Tales”]