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• W135816038 abstract "A have undertaken write about humor in La Rochefoucauld fully convinced that -J any reader will know what I mean by humor, but also aware that the word, like other words close it, eludes In L'ecriture comique Jean Sareil speaks of the impossibilite d'arriver a une definition objective du sujet and adds: Qu'est-ce que l'esprit, l'humour, la satire, l'ironie ? Bien malin qui pourrait repondre a cette question (14). Robert Escarpit agrees. He entitles the introduction his L'humour, L'impossible definition. In his excellent introduction what has become the standard twentieth-century edition of the Maximes, Jacques Truchet mentions the humorous element in La Rochefoucauld: 'Tel certains auteurs comiques, semble se griser de mots, se livrer a des sortes de gasconnades (lv). Later, he says of La Rochefoucauld: [I]l n'aime pas les gens qui se prennent trop au serieux, and points out that unlike Pascal, il n'est pas doue pour le tragique (lxv).1 The comment may be taken as an illustration of another point Sareil makes about the difficulty of defining the comic: On ne peut le definir que par opposition avec le serieux et avec le tragique (14). Robert Favre as well has observed the humor in La Rochefoucauld. The sel and the fiel of the maxims have won him a place in Favre' s Le rire dans tous ses eclats (73), one of the rare truly funny books about laughter. Andrew Calder sees La Rochefoucauld as a figure (126). He cites Erasmus who reports that Vulcan did a bad job when he created man because he failed provide windows into man's soul and its winding sinuosities. Momus, like La Rochefoucauld, set out remedy this oversight. Momus is the born fault-finder and satirist. Satire is another form of the comic that is not easy define. As The Columbia World Encyclopedia says, [i]t is more easily recognized than defined. Then it goes on explain that the aim of satire is to expose in its guises vanity, hypocrisy, pedantry, idolatry, bigotry, sentimentality. Readers of La Rochefoucauld will recognize some of these forms of foolishness as what La Rochefoucauld called vices. Contemporary readers were certainly alert what they saw as a satiric vein in his maxims. One of the anonymous letters Truchet includes in his edition mentions his esprit satirique (568), another praises him d'avoir parfaitement bien rencontre ou s'est agi de meriter le titre de satirique (575). There is much mockery in him. There is even a certain measure of self-mockery too, yet it would be fair say that he took the maxims very seriously. He never satirizes the sententiousness that inevitably enters into any sentence, as W. S. Gilbert does in H. AI S. Pinafore when he makes fun of Little Buttercup's oracular revealing. She solemnly declares: 'Things are seldom what they seem, which is one of the underlying principles of the maxims. In fact, one of the commonplaces of which Gilbert makes fun all that glitters is not gold appears as the last sentence of maxim 165 in the Manuscrit de Liancourt (428): quoique tout ce qui luit ne soit pas d'or.2 The other instances Little Buttercup cites as showing how we are often taken in by sense experience[J]ackdaws strut in peacocks' feathers [...] storks turn" @default.
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