1. Additionally, the medieval church also found use for the fabliau form. 2. Chaucer borrowed from the same fabliau as Boccaccio did. 3. The Merchant's Tale is like a Fabliau . 4. This tale ( and the next one ) comes from a 13th-century French fabliau by Eustache d'Amiens. 5. Related to the fable was the more bawdy " fabliau ", which covered topics such as cuckolding and corrupt clergy. 6. Famous French writers such as Moli�re, Jean de La Fontaine, and Voltaire owe much to the tradition of the fabliau . 7. A comparable " trope " that Diderot must have known is found in the ribald " fabliau ". 8. Jonassen begins by positing that the Pardoner's encounter with Kitt is a fabliau which closely models the Miller's Tale. 9. He explored and established every major Chaucerian genre, except such as were manifestly unsuited to his profession, like the " fabliau ". 10. It is in the form of a fabliau and tells the story of a miserly merchant, his avaricious wife and her lover, a wily monk.