Histoires tragiques were a genre of French fiction of the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries, a Baroque rendering of Boccaccio's type of short story that concentrated on the dark side of human nature.
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Place of Origin Notable ExampleHistoires tragiques (1559) by Pierre Boaistuau, translating Matteo Bandello's Novelli 1 Defining TraitConcentrates on the dark side of human nature 1 In the Other Atlases
- Also in Geography Atlas: France, originated there.
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1. Histoires tragiques - Wikipedia
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a genre of French fiction in 16th-17th centuries
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Pierre Boaistuau with his translation of Matteo Bandello's Novelli published in French as Histoires tragiques (1559)
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concentrating on the dark side of human nature
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