Humour of France


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The Humour of France


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French Humour


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French Wit and Humor


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French Laughter


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The culmination of a lifetime's fascination with humor, Walter Redfern's book treats major French writers from the 18th to the 20th centuries as humorists, including Diderot, Rousseau, Sade, Huysmans, Flaubert, Beckett, and Tournier. He considers irony, hyperbole, wordplay, jokes, dialogue, humor as philosophical speculation, and plagiarism.




Humour in Contemporary France


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Humour and freedom of expression were widely discussed following the January 2015 Charlie Hebdo attacks. However, much analysis failed to assess the evolution of French humour in recent decades. This book examines what both Charlie Hebdo and French stand-up comedy can tell us about multiculturalism and humour in contemporary France.







The World's Wackiest French Joke Book


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Teaches French vocabulary through five hundred jokes and quips, the answers to which are puns on French words. Includes related fun facts.




Humour in Contemporary France


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Introduction : Humour : a serious issue in contemporary France -- Charlie Hebdo : from controversy to consensus? -- Dieudonné : from anti-racist activism to allegations of anti-Semitism -- Jamel Comedy Club : stand-up comedy à la française? -- Islam and humour: more than just a debate about cartoons.