Far from frozen filing that one can have of the Middle Ages, the author spreads before us a happy world of powerful feelings, dirrévérence and pragmatism. We go to meet multiple small characters similar to those of the Gothic painting characters, colorful simple traits. The stories revolve around a same in essentials chart, the different ways in which love manifests itself. Jealousy, thwarted love, noble or trivial and that affects the beings of all conditions, no ny escapes not even storytellers. It does not feel pass the 800 pages because the author is renewed in each of a hundred stories. Another interesting aspect, discovered in some texts the sources of inspiration dauteurs later, the frame of "All's Well That Ends Well" by Shakespeare. Some critics even so, some aspects of lépoque company, as violent and profoundly unequal, may offend the reader, and the reader, the 21st century. The "good words", the theme of the sixth day are not necessarily funny, or even comprehensible today. Moreover, if the stories change every night repeated the same ritual, almost, to the storytellers, which tired a little in the long run. When one takes stock, the very positive because lemporte fun quon takes chewable each story whose verve and finesse Nont not aged, a real treat.
