Dictionnaire des calembours et des jeux de mots, lazzis, coqs-à-l'âne, quolibets, quiproquos, amphigouris, etc.

Name: Dictionnaire des calembours et des jeux de mots, lazzis, coqs-à-l'âne, quolibets, quiproquos, amphigouris, etc.
Author: Pierre-Alexandre Gratet-Duplessis

by Pierre-Alexandre Gratet-Duplessis, Eugène Le Gai

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Project Gutenberg

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Produced by Laurent Vogel, Hugo Voisard, Rénald Lévesque and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team at http://www.pgdp.net (This file was produced from images generously made available by the Bibliothèque Nationale de France (BnF/Gallica) at http://gallica.bnf.fr)

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2009-06-19

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Public domain in the USA.

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Puns and punning French wit and humor

About the authors

Pierre-Alexandre Gratet-Duplessis

1792–1853

A 19th-century French bibliographer and man of letters, he is remembered for careful historical and literary catalogues that helped preserve the printed heritage of northern France. His surviving works point to a scholar deeply interested in books, libraries, and the history surrounding them.

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Eugène Le Gai

b. 1817

Best known for lively collections of French puns, wordplay, and comic turns of phrase, this 19th-century writer is linked to playful anthologies that preserve a whole culture of verbal wit. Some sources also suggest the name may have been used as a pseudonym, which adds a little mystery to the work.

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