Dictionnaire des idées reçues by Gustave Flaubert

"Dictionnaire des idées reçues" by Gustave Flaubert is a satirical dictionary compiled during the 1870s and published in 1911-13. This wickedly funny work catalogs the clichés and automatic thoughts that plagued French society under the Second Empire. Structured as a mock dictionary, it exposes the absurdity of received wisdom through entries that reveal self-contradictory platitudes and insipid commonplaces. Flaubert spent his life perfecting this devastating critique of stupidity, creating a book where readers would fear speaking lest they repeat one of its skewered phrases. (This is an automatically generated summary.)

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Author Flaubert, Gustave, 1821-1880
Title Dictionnaire des idées reçues
Note Wikipedia page about this book: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dictionary_of_Received_Ideas Wikipedia page about this book: fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dictionnaire_des_id%C3%A9es_re%C3%A7ues
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Reading Level Reading ease score: 80.0 (7th grade). Fairly easy to read.
Language French
LoC Class PQ: Language and Literatures: Romance literatures: French, Italian, Spanish, Portuguese
Subject French wit and humor
Subject Wisdom -- Humor
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EBook-No. 14156
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Copyright Status Public domain in the USA.
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