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The text presents fifteen ironic vignettes that list the supposed joys of married life, each turning unexpectedly into satirical sketches exposing domestic annoyances, infidelities, self-deception, and social pretenses. Through brisk anecdotes, wry observation, and a recurring rueful refrain at the end of every unit, it alternates comedy and melancholy to scrutinize human foibles within conjugal bonds. Its language mixes colloquial turns and deliberate naïveté to amplify irony, while structure—short episodes capped by the same closing motif—creates a cumulative portrait of marriage as a source of persistent, often comic discomfort rather than felicity.

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Title: Les quinze joyes de mariage

Author: Antoine de La Sale

Editor: Pierre Jannet

Release date: May 7, 2021 [eBook #65273]
Most recently updated: October 18, 2024

Language: French

Credits: Carlo Traverso, Laurent Vogel and the Distributed Proofreading team at DP-test Italia. (This file was produced from images generously made available by The Internet Archive/Canadian Libraries.)

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LES
QUINZE JOYES
DE MARIAGE

SECONDE ÉDITION
De la Bibliothèque elzevirienne

Conforme au manuscrit de la Bibliothèque publique de Rouen

Avec les Variantes des anciennes éditions
une Notice bibliographique
et des Notes

A PARIS
Chez P. Jannet, Libraire

MDCCCLVII

Paris. — Imprimé par E. Thunot et Cie, rue Racine, 26, avec les caractères elzeviriens de P. Jannet.