Ahumorous tale that was popular in france is a mendican narrative fabliau tragedy

A fabliau (plural fabliaux) is a comic, often anonymous tale written by jongleurs in northeast France between ca. 1150 and 1400. They are generally characterized by sexual and scatological obscenity, and by a set of contrary attitudes—contrary to the church and to the nobility.

It covered the territory of land across eurasia from northeastern europe to the pacific ocean.