LE GENRE NARRATIF AU XVe ET XVIe SIÈCLES
THE NARRATIVE GENRE IN THE 15TH AND 16TH CENTURIES

Summary/Abstract: Alongside relevant and consistent works, a new literary genre has been created and diversified by several French authors inspired by the Boccacio, Bandello and Staparole’s works. This genre undoubtedly has arisen from the pleasure of the story-telling, which was very lively in the French society of the XVIth century. This genre developed on the appearance of a conversation, either because the storytellers present it in their works through a direct dialogue with the readers, or whether the work is linked by the replicas directly to its readers, or the work is linked by the lines and stories of a number of people talking to each other. It is the short narrative genre which met its greatest success in the century of the narrators‚ XVI, and which saw as one of its most representative personalities of the first half of the XVI‚ the kind mother of the Renaissance‚ the princess of the Renaissance novel Marguerite de Navarre.

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