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  • 1 - Poetry
    • 1 - Lyrical poems
    • 2 - Whimsical poems
    • 3 - Poems (light)
  • 2 - Love
    • 4 - Love - Messages
    • 5 - Love - May
    • 6 - Love - Serenades, Rendez-vous
    • 7 - Love - Wise, Prudent
    • 8 - Love - Regrets, Repentances
    • 9 - Female Lovers (in need of love)
    • 10 - In a hurry to get married - Mother-Daughter Dialogue
    • 11 - In a hurry to get married - Miscellaneous
    • 12 - Kidnappings
    • 13 - Abduction
    • 14 - Thwarted love
    • 15 - Lovers’ disputes
    • 16 - Sleeping beauties
    • 17 - Flirting on the water
    • 18 - Passing love affairs
    • 19 - Missed opportunities, Helpless suitors
    • 20 - Suitors misled
    • 21 - Theft and deception : Girls at the mill
    • 22 - Theft - Miscellaneous
    • 23 - Women pregnant
    • 24 - Mockery, criticism of suitor or maiden
    • 25 - Dissensions - Quarrels, small quarrels
    • 26 - Dissensions - Suitors bullied
    • 27 - Dissensions - Suitors bullied , take to drinking
    • 28 - Dissensions - Maidens bullied
  • 3 - Separation
    • 29 - Departures - Guild members
    • 30 - Departures - Soldiers
    • 31 - Departures - The maiden refuses to follow
    • 32 - Departures - On the water
    • 33 - Departures - Abandonments on departure
    • 34 - Abandonments - Abandoned
    • 35 - Abandonments - In search of the suitor
    • 36 - Abandonments - Abandoned
  • 4 - The shepherdesses
    • 37 - Returns
    • 38 - Shepherdesses and sons of kings, captains
    • 39 - Shepherdesses and hunters
    • 40 - Shepherdesses and Gentleman misled
    • 41 - Shepherdesses and Gentleman(story)
    • 42 - Shepherdesses and Gentleman who offers gold, castle
    • 43 - Shepherdesses and Gentleman repulsed
    • 44 - Shepherdesses and Gentleman (dialogue in French and Patois)
    • 45 - Shepherdesses and Shepherd
    • 46 - Shepherdesses - Miscellaneous
  • 5 - Marriage
    • 47 - Marriage proposals rejected or approved
    • 48 - Marriage proposals - Engagement, miscellaneous
    • 49 - Before marriage
    • 50 - Marriage of old woman, spinsters
    • 51 - Ridiculous dowries or weddings
    • 52 - The wedding
    • 53 - Wedding adventures, thwarted marriage, returns
    • 54 - Worries, disadvantages of marriage or household
    • 55 - Dissatisfied spouses (women)
    • 56 - Little husband, hunchbacked or ridiculous husband
    • 57 - Married to old men
    • 58 - Dissatisfied spouses (men)
    • 59 - Cheated husbands
    • 60 - Marriage (miscellaneous)
  • 6 - Social relations
    • 61 - Politico-historical
    • 62 - Social
    • 63 - Masters and servants
    • 64 - Trades
  • 7 - The army
    • 65 - Conscription, departure to the army
    • 66 - Life in the army
    • 67 - Young girl enlists, girl soldiers
    • 68 - Deserters
    • 69 - Holidays, returns from the army
    • 70 - Various military
    • 71 - Sailors
  • 8 - Adult entertainment
    • 72 - Songs for dancing
    • 73 - Circle dances with kissing game and fictitious weddings
    • 74 - Dances
  • 9 - Childhood
    • 75 - Various lullabies
    • 76 - Dodo, fais dodo (type of lullaby)
    • 77 - Som-soms, nenies (type of lullaby)
    • 78 - Children's dancing games
    • 79 - Children's dancing games for kissing or marriage
    • 80 - Various children’s songs
  • 10 - Religion
    • 81 - Various nuns
    • 82 - Convent
    • 83 - Miracles, pilgrimages
    • 84 - Instructive
    • 85 - Charity
    • 86 - Legends of the Old and New Testaments
    • 87 - Life of the Virgin, Jesus child
    • 88 - Passion, Resurrection
    • 89 - Saints
    • 90 - May and Spring Quêtes(calendar custom song)
    • 91 - Quêtes (calendar custom song) - Kings, Easter, New Year and miscellaneous
    • 92 - Priests
    • 93 - Satires of Church People - Monks
    • 94 - Nuns, hermits and miscellaneous
  • 11 - Crime, miscellaneous facts
    • 95 - Thefts, robbers
    • 96 - Miscellaneous crimes
    • 97 - Parricides, fratricides, infanticides
    • 98 - Crimes of passion
    • 99 - Crimes of passion (in marriage)
  • 12 - Enumeratives, Cumulative songs
    • 100 - Enumerative or Cumulative songs - Increasing numbers
    • 101 - Enumerative or Cumulative songs - Decreasing numbers
    • 102 - Enumerative or Cumulative songs - Clothing
    • 103 - Various Enumerative or Cumulative songs
    • 104 - Miscellaneous enumerative songs
  • 13 - Animals
    • 105 - Birds
    • 106 - Miscellaneous animals, talking animals
  • 14 - The table
    • 107 - Debates, praise of wine and the table
    • 108 - Songs to make you drink, verses for drinking
    • 109 - Drinking sessions, various feasting
    • 110 - Drinking sessions, women and girls’ feasts
    • 111 - Drunkard told off by their wives
  • 15 - A joke... to the gaudriole...
    • 112 - Drinking sessions, feasting at the tavern
    • 113 - Various satirical and amusing songs
    • 114 - Satirical and joking songs
    • 115 - Comic-gallant
    • 116 - Bawdiness
    • 117 - Weary suitors, the maid still eager
    • 118 - Saucy songs, equivocal (double meaning)
    • 119 - Smutty songs
    • 120 - Obscene songs
    • 121 - Filthy, obscene songs

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