Les contes drolatiques
Balzac's bawdy Renaissance tales, Les contes drolatiques, in a 1900 Paris edition from Librairie illustrée–J. Tallandier illustrated throughout by Albert Robida. Pen drawings mix full-page tavern and chamber scenes with small vignettes set into the text: horned demons at a feast, feathered hats, slashed doublets, carved cabinets, women in laced bodices—useful for period costume and comic devilry.
