One Hundred Merrie And Delightsome Stories - Right Pleasaunte To Relate In All Goodly Companie By Way Of Joyance And Jollity

The 'Cent Nouvelles Nouvelles', also known as the 'One Hundred New Novellas' is a collection of stories supposed to be narrated by various persons at the court of Philippe le Bon, and collected together by Antoine de la Sale in the mid-15th century. The nouvelles are, according to the authority on French Literature—Professor George Saintsbury "undoubtedly the first work of literary prose in French ... The short prose tale of a comic character is the one French literary product the pre-eminence and perfection of which it is impossible to dispute, and the prose tale first appears to advantage in the Cent Nouvelles Nouvelles."