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Longer medieval poems such as ''[[Le Roman de Renart]]'' and those found in ''[[The Canterbury Tales]]'' have their origin in one or several fabliaux. Longer medieval poems such as ''[[Le Roman de Renart]]'' and those found in ''[[The Canterbury Tales]]'' have their origin in one or several fabliaux.
-The fabliau gradually disappeared at the beginning of the 16th century. It was replaced by the [[prose]] [[short story]]. Famous French writers such as [[Molière]], [[Jean de La Fontaine]] and [[Voltaire]] owe much to the tradition of the fabliau, in their prose works as well as in their poetry. [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/{{PAGENAMEE}}] [May 2007]+The fabliau gradually disappeared at the beginning of the 16th century. It was replaced by the [[prose]] [[short story]]. Famous French writers such as [[Molière]], [[Jean de La Fontaine]] and [[Voltaire]] owe much to the tradition of the fabliau, in their prose works as well as in their poetry. {{GFDL}}

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The fabliau (plural fabliaux or "'fablieaux'") is a comic, usually anonymous tale written by jongleurs in northeast France circa the 13th Century. They are generally bawdy in nature, and several of them were reworked by Geoffrey Chaucer for his Canterbury Tales. Some 150 French fabliaux are extant depending on how narrowly fabliau is defined.

Typical fabliaux concern cuckolded husbands, rapacious clergy and foolish peasants. The status of peasants appears to vary based on the audience for which the fabliau was being written. Poems that were presumably written for the nobility portray peasants (vilains in French) as stupid and vile, whereas those written for the lower classes often tell of peasants getting the better of the clergy.

Longer medieval poems such as Le Roman de Renart and those found in The Canterbury Tales have their origin in one or several fabliaux.

The fabliau gradually disappeared at the beginning of the 16th century. It was replaced by the prose short story. Famous French writers such as Molière, Jean de La Fontaine and Voltaire owe much to the tradition of the fabliau, in their prose works as well as in their poetry.



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