#les cent contes drolatiques

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Gustave Doré (1832-1883) - Illustration from Honoré de Balzac's "Les Cent Contes drolatiques", 1855 edition.

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From Les Cent Contes drolatiques (Droll Stories/The Hundred Facetious Tales) after Honoré de Balzac

by Paul and Gaëtan Brizzi

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"I listened to the music of her voice, which warmed me from head to foot, and made me desire to be young"

Gustave Doré (1832-1883) - The Succubus, 1855

Illustration from Honoré de Balzac's "Les Cent Contes drolatiques/Droll Stories"

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Gustave Doré (1832-1883) - The Succubus, 1855

Illustration from Honoré de Balzac's "Les Cent Contes drolatiques/Droll Stories"

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"She was able to break her cords and escape into the church, where, in remembrance of her old vocation, she climbed quickly into the galleries above"

Gustave Doré (1832-1883) - The Succubus, 1855

Illustration from Honoré de Balzac's "Les Cent Contes drolatiques/Droll Stories"

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"What the succubus did to suck out the soul of the old judge, and what came of the diabolical delectation"

Gustave Doré (1832-1883) - The Succubus, 1855

Illustration from Honoré de Balzac's "Les Cent Contes drolatiques/Droll Stories"

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"To have been met many times in the fields mounted upon an unknown animal which went before the clouds"

Gustave Doré (1832-1883) - The Succubus, 1855

Illustration from Honoré de Balzac's "Les Cent Contes drolatiques/Droll Stories"

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"Several had seen her during the night go to the cemeteries, and there embrace the young dead men"

Gustave Doré (1832-1883) - The Succubus, 1855

Illustration from Honoré de Balzac's "Les Cent Contes drolatiques/Droll Stories"

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"Finally, in his latter days, he appeared like a poor dried-up worm, such as housekeepers meet with in a corner when they clean out the dwelling rooms"

Gustave Doré (1832-1883) - The Succubus, 1855

Illustration from Honoré de Balzac's "Les Cent Contes drolatiques/Droll Stories"

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“Behold, madame,” said he, “a picture which will enlighten you concerning the duties of a wife towards her husband.

Gustave Doré (1832-1883) - The High Constable's Wife, 1855

Illustration from Honoré de Balzac's "Les Cent Contes drolatiques/Droll Stories"

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"She has all the fire of hell in her, the strength of Samson in her hair, and the sound of celestial music in her voice"

Gustave Doré (1832-1883) - The Succubus, 1855

Illustration from Honoré de Balzac's "Les Cent Contes drolatiques/Droll Stories"

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"And always, as long as he had the strength to go, he went to shorten his life with this accursed woman"

Gustave Doré (1832-1883) - The Succubus, 1855

Illustration from Honoré de Balzac's "Les Cent Contes drolatiques/Droll Stories"

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"The proceedings taken relative to this female vampire"

Gustave Doré (1832-1883) - The Succubus, 1855

Illustration from Honoré de Balzac's "Les Cent Contes drolatiques/Droll Stories"

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Gustave Doré (1832-1883) - The Succubus, 1855

decoration from Honoré de Balzac's "Les Cent Contes drolatiques/Droll Stories"

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"The third ten"

Gustave Doré (1832-1883) - The Succubus, 1855

Illustration from Honoré de Balzac's "Les Cent Contes drolatiques/Droll Stories"

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"In this frightful tempest of men, have we seen between the battlements of the archiepiscopal palace and the bridges, more than ten thousand men swarming"

Gustave Doré (1832-1883) - The Succubus, 1855

Illustration from Honoré de Balzac's "Les Cent Contes drolatiques/Droll Stories"