The Old French Fabliaux
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Old French fabliaux are a genre of brief, often humorous and satirical, narrative poems popular in France during the 12th and 13th centuries. These medieval French tales typically featured common folk, explored themes of trickery, folly, and often contained a moral or an anti-moral, providing a unique insight into medieval society and its often ribald sensibilities.