Various 
One Hundred Merrie And Delightsome Stories 
Right Pleasaunte To Relate In All Goodly Companie By Way Of Joyance And Jollity

The ‚Cent Nouvelles Nouvelles‘, also known as the ‚One Hundred New Novellas‘ is a collection of stories supposed to be narrated by various persons at the court of Philippe le Bon, and collected together by Antoine de la Sale in the mid-15th century. The nouvelles are, according to the authority on French Literature—Professor George Saintsbury ‚undoubtedly the first work of literary prose in French … The short prose tale of a comic character is the one French literary product the pre-eminence and perfection of which it is impossible to dispute, and the prose tale first appears to advantage in the Cent Nouvelles Nouvelles.‘