{"product_id":"2940149478828","title":"One Hundred Merry and Delightful Stories","description":"The Cent Nouvelles Nouvelles 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.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThe 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.\"\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eAntoine de la Sale is supposed to have been the \"acteur\" in the collection of the licentious stories. One only of the stories is given in his name, but he is credited with the compilation of the whole, for which Louis XI was long held responsible. A completed copy of this was presented to the Duke of Burgundy at Dijon in 1462.","brand":"Bronson Tweed Publishing","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47108995973360,"sku":"2940149478828","price":0.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0737\/7593\/9824\/files\/2940149478828_p0.jpg?v=1763717825","url":"https:\/\/shop-qa.barnesandnoble.com\/products\/2940149478828","provider":"Barnes \u0026 Noble (DEV)","version":"1.0","type":"link"}