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The Tales Of The Heptameron, Vol. I. (of V.)Download Now...

by Queen of Navarre Margaret (Author) , Queen of Navarre Margaret (Contributor) , George Saintsbury (Translator) , Freudenberg (Illustrator) , Dunker (Illustrator)

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TALE CONTENTS:

FIRST DAY

Tale I. The pitiful history of a Proctor of Alen?on, named St. Aignan,
and of his wife, who caused her husband to assassinate her lover, the
son of the Lieutenant-General

Tale II. The fate of the wife of a muleteer of Amboise, who suffered herself
to be killed by her servant rather than sacrifice her chastity

Tale III. The revenge taken by the Queen of Naples, wife to King Alfonso, for
her husband's infidelity with a gentleman's wife

Tale IV. The ill success of a Flemish gentleman who was unable to obtain,
either by persuasion or force, the love of a great Princess

Tale V. How a boatwoman of Coulon, near Nyort, contrived to escape from the
vicious designs of two Grey Friars

Tale VI. How the wife of an old valet of the Duke of Alen?on's succeeded
in saving her lover from her husband, who was blind of one eye

Tale VII. The craft of a Parisian merchant, who saved the reputation of the
daughter by offering violence to the mother

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