Conteur

'Plus Deuil que Joie' (1838), which was not much noticed, but a series of stories in the same year gained him the reputation of a genial 'conteur'. ❋ Various (N/A)

I was something of a 'conteur' myself, and we soon became friendly rivals in telling anecdotes. ❋ Giacomo Casanova (1761)

'conteur' who excels in producing an animated spectacle for a refined and selected public, whether he paints the ridiculousness or the misery of humanity. ❋ Various (N/A)

Je peux vous renseigner = Can I help you? une conteuse (un conteur) = storyteller ❋ Unknown (2010)

Nakkál,300 the conteur or professional story-teller, also called Kassás and Maddáh, corresponding with the ❋ Unknown (2006)

The language of Saintonge was mainly the product of an oral culture, with many special words for people who were important to its transmission, such as conteur and bonconteur, conteuse and conteusine, who are skilled at recounting stories and histories in public.20 It is a language rich in its description of special systems of material production, some of which would be carried to New France. ❋ David Hackett Fischer (2008)

Tout conteur se répète: voilà le grand inconvénient du métier. ❋ Harry Vincent Wann (N/A)

No man tells a story better than a French _conteur_. ❋ Various (N/A)

In these innumerable well-told tales, full of sprightly dialogue, can be already detected something of the art of the _conteur_ which will appear in Chaucer, and something almost of the art of the novelist, destined five hundred years later to reach such a high development in England. ❋ Jean Jules Jusserand (N/A)

But it is the bare plot that interests, and the disposition of mankind to listen to story-telling is such that the idlest _conteur_ can entertain. ❋ Various (N/A)

Un conteur de profession, auquel on reprochait ce défaut, répondit assez naïvement: "Il faut bien que vous me permettiez [1] de vous redire de temps en temps mes petits contes; sans cela je les oublierais." ❋ Harry Vincent Wann (N/A)

Hence, to those who do not read Zabara in the original, he is more easily appreciated as a _conteur_ than as an imaginative writer. ❋ Israel Abrahams (1891)

He was forty years of age when it appeared, and the subject was considered a little frivolous, even for such a _petit conteur_ as Moncrif. ❋ Edmund Gosse (1888)

Brantôme speaks of it with enthusiasm, and quotes it repeatedly; Lafontaine, the conteur par excellence, acknowledges his obligations to it; Montaigne calls it un gentil livre pour son etoffe – "a nice book for its matter;" and Bayle says it is, "after the manner of Boccace's novels," and "has beauties in that kind which are surprising." ❋ Unknown (1855)

Nakkál, [FN#300] the conteur or professional story-teller, also called Kassás and Maddáh, corresponding with the Hindu Bhat or ❋ Anonymous (1855)