Les Cent Nouvelles nouvelles, here published as an Ace pulp.

The Cent Nouvelles nouvelles is an anonymous collection of nouvelles supposed to be narrated by various persons at the court of Philippe le Bon, and collected by Antoine de la Sale in the 1456-1457. The work borrowed from Boccaccio‘s Decameron (1350-1353) and has in fact been subtitled as the French Decameron (a title which has also been given to the Heptameron (1558)). It is similar to Chaucer‘s Canterbury Tales (1390s), the Contes et nouvelles en vers (1665-66) by Fontaine and Brantôme‘s Les Vies des Dames galantes (1665-1666).

The nouvelle as genre is considered the first example of literary prose in French, the first text in this category is generally cited as Les Cent Nouvelles nouvelles.

More than thirty-two noblemen or squires contributed the stories, with some 14 or 15 taken from Giovanni Boccaccio, and as many more from Gian Francesco Poggio Bracciolini or other Italian writers, or French fabliaux, but about 70 of them appear to be original.

Here in a Charles Carrington edition

The stories are bawdy, ribald and burlesque, with titles such as The Monk-Doctor, The Armed Cuckold, The Drunkard In Paradise, The Castrated Clerk and the The Husband As Doctor.