De la demoiselle qui vouloit voler en l'air
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De la Demoiselle qui vouloit voler en l'air is a fabliau by French trouveur Rutebeuf, "in which a clerk, while pretending to add wings and feathers to a lady, that she might fly, acts in a similar manner with the priest of Barletta" (History of Prose Fiction).
It is the Decameron's Ninth Day, Novel X Jean de La Fontaine's "La Jument du compère Pierre."
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