Fabliau

Rarity: Uncommon

A topic a little better known than average, read and translated beyond its own country.

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What Wikipedia says

A fabliau (French pronunciation: [fabljo]; plural fabliaux) is a comic, often anonymous tale written by jongleurs and clerics in France between c. 1150 and 1400.

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