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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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She translated these insights into a creative retelling of the Afro-Cuban tales, published in the collection that came to be known as Contes negres de Cuba.
Creating Ethnography: Zora Neale Hurston and Lydia Cabrera by Hoffman-Jeep, Lynda / African American Review
There is a playfulness, a roguishness (an "eutrapelie" for Bichard-Thomine) that runs throughout his three collections of tales, Propos rustiques (1547), Baliverneries d'Eutrapel (1548), and the much later Contes et discours d'Eutrapel (1585), as well as a joy in storytelling and dialogue so much in evidence in French Renaissance narrative.
Noel du Fail: Conteur by Perret, Donald / Renaissance Quarterly
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