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work_4x6rk5t43jfytin6q7jpmqhsoy	Hervé-Thomas Campangne	Framing the Early Modern French Best Seller: American Settings for François de Belleforest's Tragic Histories	2018	37	.pdf	application/pdf	18315	1438	71	This article shows how François de Belleforest (1530–83) adapted a variety of historical and geographical sources to meet the demands of the histoire tragique genre in composing three narratives 1559 and 1582, Belleforest published five volumes of histoires tragiques, comprising ninety-eight stories of passion, murder, and revenge that were reissued several times by printers in Paris, Lyon, Rouen, and Torino. the tragic histories, partly invented by the French author, containing twenty-six stories, more diligently improved and embellished than the previous ones, by François de Belleforest), these novellas were not mere translations. cosmographer/histoires tragiques author envisions it based on his reading of accounts written by Spanish, Portuguese, and French travelers—provides the novelty that Belleforest has repeatedly promised his readers.56 captains whose story we can read in ancient and modern history."101 Like Montaigne's essay, Belleforest's histoire tragique is designed to bring readers to reconsider their prejudice against savages and to grasp the extent of the atrocities	./cache/work_4x6rk5t43jfytin6q7jpmqhsoy.pdf	./txt/work_4x6rk5t43jfytin6q7jpmqhsoy.txt