The Lombard Who Wanted Twelve Wives

A young man boasts he could handle twelve wives. He marries one. She ruins him.

When the village captures a wolf, he suggests, “Give him a wife.”

Le valet aus .xii. Fames (The fellow with a dozen wives) is a fabliau about ego, endurance, and learning the hard way that marriage is not for amateurs.

📜 Text: Translation by Nathaniel E. Dubin

🎵 Title music: “Celebration” by Alexander Nakarada

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