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conte

Short story, particularly a tale of adventure or a fairy tale.

The word conte was used in France as early as the 13th century to describe an anecdote told in an artistic way. Various collections, such as the Gesta Romanorum, made such anecdotes popular in the Middle Ages. As in the later Contes drôlatiques 1833 by the French novelist Honoré de Balzac, their subjects are love (treated in a playful manner), the cunning of wives, the deception of husbands, and the breaking of their vows by clerics.
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Se alle sei della mattina le quattro mile piastre non sono nelle mie mani, alla sette il conte Alberto avra cessato di vivere.
The Count of Monte Cristo by Dumas, Alexandre View in context
The quiet little man, who had just muscle enough to lift a dictionary from the shelf, and just training enough to play the fiddle, so far from being daunted by the rough reception accorded to him, appeared to feel no other sentiment in relation to it than a sentiment of unmitigated conte mpt.
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