(Study of popular literature and literary history of the Middle Ages) Hardback in VGC, in French. Very occasional light pencil marks. Revised and enlarged edition of this work originally published in September 1894. \"I treated this frivolous matter seriously, it is with these nuggets, even with these nonsense that I devoted, at the age of the long hopes, my first and most serious effort, \"says Joseph Bedier. In the first part: In-depth examination of the origin of the fabliaux and their propagation. Second part: Literary study of fabliaux.