Initially it was subtitled The London Charivari, this being a reference to a satirical humour magazine published in France under the title Le Charivari ( a work read often whilst Mayhew was in Paris ).

Initially it was subtitled The London Charivari, this being a reference to a satirical humour magazine published in France as Le Charivari.

Furthermore, the satirical newspaper Le Canard enchaîné revealed the astronomical " food expenses " paid by the Parisian municipality (€ 15 million a year according to the Canard ), expenses managed by Roger Romani ( who allegedly destroyed all archives of the period 1978 – 1993 during night raids in 1999 – 2000 ).

A less flattering nickname is l ' Ex ( the Ex ), used mostly by the weekly satirical newspaper Le Canard enchaîné.

The paper was founded as a satirical weekly in 1826, taking its name and motto from Le Mariage de Figaro, a play by Pierre-Augustin Caron de Beaumarchais that poked fun at privilege.

Le Bébête Show was a satirical puppet show shown on French television.

Rameau's music, so graceful and attractive, completely contradicts the man's public image and what we know of his character as described ( or perhaps unfairly caricatured ) by Diderot in his satirical novel Le Neveu de Rameau.

In 1559 du Bellay published at Poitiers La Nouvelle Manière de faire son profit des lettres, a satirical epistle translated from the Latin of Adrien Turnèbe, and with it Le Poète courtisan, which introduced the formal satire into French poetry.

The bad publicity garnered from the " Shit wine case " was extensive, with several publications such as Le Monde, The Times, The New York Times and the Herald Tribune running critical or satirical articles on the court's decision.

His one long poetic work, Le Miroir de Mariage, is a 13, 000 line satirical poem on the subject of women.

Le Canard enchaîné ( ; English: The Chained Duck or The Chained Paper ) is a satirical newspaper published weekly in France.

In the 1920s, it used to publish free advertisement for Le Crapouillot, another satirical magazine created by Jean Galtier-Boissière, a friend of Maurice Maréchal.

He produced art criticism in L ' Histoire de la peinture flamande et hollandaise ( 1846 ); semi-historical sketches in Mlle de la Vallière et Mme de Montespan ( 1860 ) and Galerie de portraits du XVIII siècle ( 1844 ); literary criticism in Le Roi Voltaire ( 1858 ) and his famous satirical Histoire du quarante et unième fauteuil de l ' Académie française ( 1855 ); drama in his Comédiennes ( 1857 ); poetry in his Symphonie de vingt ans ( 1867 ), Cent et un sonnets ( 1873 ), etc.

The satirical paper Le Canard Enchaîné accused him of breaking the law through tax evasion and in 1972, Chaban-Delmas canvassed for a vote of confidence in the Assembly.

* The Fabliaux, satirical fables which relied on the tradition established by Aesop of using anthropomorphic animals such as Le Roman de Renart, generally attributed to poet Pierre de Saint-Cloud ( c. 1175 ).

We shall not go far wrong if we include in the list Hyacinthe Morel ( 1756 – 1829 ), of Avignon, whose collection of poems, Lou Saboulet, has been republished by Frédéric Mistral ; Louis Aubanel ( 178 ~- 1842 ), of Nîmes, the successful translator of Anacreon's Odes ; Auguste Tandon, the troubadour of Montpellier, who wrote Fables, contes et autres pièces en vers ( 1800 ); Fabre d ' Olivet, the versatile littérateur who in 1803 published Le Troubadour: Poésies occitaniques, which, in order to secure their success, he gave out as the work of some medieval poet Diou-loufet ( 1771 – 1840 ), who wrote a didactic poem, in the manner of Virgil, relating to silkworm-breeding ( Leis magnans ); Jacques Azais ( 1778 – 1856 ), author of satires, fables, & c .; d ' Astros ( 1780 – 1863 ), a writer of fables in La Fontaine's manner ; Castil-Blaze, who found time, amidst his musical pursuits, to compose Provençal poems, intended to be set to music ; the Marquis de Fare-Alais ( 1791 – 1846 ), author of some light satirical tales ( Las Castagnados ).

* April 15-First Impressionist exhibition opens in a private studio ( belonging to Nadar ) outside the official Paris Salon ; Louis Leroy in the French satirical newspaper Le Charivari coins the term " impressionism ".

" An LVMH spokesman told the satirical magazine Le Canard Enchainé: " We don't deny the facts, but regrettably the author has exaggerated the Vichy episode.

The success of this work led to his being engaged as artistic contributor to various periodicals, such as La Silhouette, L ' Artiste, La Caricature, Le Charivari ; and his political caricatures which were characterized by marvelous fertility of satirical humour, soon came to enjoy a general popularity.

In general the paper maintained a humorously ironic style that today can be recognised in satirical magazines such as Private Eye, Le Canard enchâiné and The Onion.

The Dictionary of Received Ideas ( in French, Le Dictionnaire des idées reçues ) is a short satirical work collected and published in 1911-3 from notes compiled by Gustave Flaubert during the 1870s, lampooning the clichés endemic to French society under the Second French Empire.

Guillaume is also known for satirical drawings that were published in Parisian humor magazines such as Gil Blas, Le Rire, L ’ Assiette au Beurre, and Le Figaro illustré.

In 1839 Alphonse Karr became editor of Le Figaro, to which he had been a constant contributor ; and he also started a monthly journal, Les Guêpes, of a keenly satirical tone, a publication which brought him the reputation of a somewhat bitter wit.

In his 1843 Autobiographical Sketch Wagner acknowledged he had taken the story from Heinrich Heine's retelling of the legend in his 1833 satirical novel The Memoirs of Mister von Schnabelewopski ( Aus den Memoiren des Herrn von Schnabelewopski ).

These stories were generally unscientific and tended towards the satirical rather than the purely entertaining ; their subject-matter was probably inspired by the popular writings of Fontenelle, notably his Entretiens sur la pluralité des mondes (" Conversations on the Multiplicity of Worlds ", 1686 ).

The Canard enchaîné satirical newspaper called him the " chief of the brainwashers ' tribe " (" chef de la tribu des bourreurs de crâne ").

Both men, angered by what they perceived as libellous statements, declared that Desmoulins should be denounced and Malouet “ went so far as to ask that Camille be certified insane .” The Actes des Apôtres, the equally savage royalist newspaper that served as the Révolutions opposite number, engaged in a continual war of insults with the Révolutions, and particularly with Desmoulins, whom it dubbed, in a satirical poem, " l ' ânon des moulins ".

Richard Wagner's opera, The Flying Dutchman ( 1843 ) is adapted from an episode in Heinrich Heine's satirical novel The Memoirs of Mister von Schnabelewopski ( Aus den Memoiren des Herrn von Schnabelewopski ) ( 1833 ), in which a character attends a theatrical performance of The Flying Dutchman in Amsterdam.

He is best known for the satirical plays he wrote during this period for the Confrérie des Enfants Sans Souci or Sots, a famous comedic acting troupe.

33, also known by its French language title L ' amour des trois oranges (, Lyubov ' k tryom apel ' sinam ), is a satirical opera by Sergei Prokofiev.

His work appeared in the satirical newspaper La Voix des Îles, frequently as captions to caricatures.

In 1849 he published Reimchronik des Pfaffen Mauritius, a satirical political poem in the style of Heine.

Penguin Island ( 1908 ; French: L ' Île des Pingouins ) is a satirical fictional history by Nobel Prize winning French author Anatole France.

His characters are the fruit of acute and experienced observation, and abound in satirical traits, although the 42nd chapter of his second book, devoted expressly to portraiture, is headed Comment Georges escrit et mentionne les louanges vertueuses des princes de son temps.

His first book, a collection of short pieces called Bertha's Christmas Vision: An Autumn Sheaf, was published in 1856, and his second, a lengthy satirical poem called Nothing to Do: A Tilt at our Best Society, was published in 1857.

Alan of Lille was not the author of a Memoriale rerum difficilium, published under his name, nor of Moralium dogma philosophorum, nor of the satirical Apocalypse of Golias once attributed to him ; and it is exceedingly doubtful whether the Dicta Alani de lapide philosophico really issued from his pen.

In 1703, he published a satirical pamphlet against the High Tories and in favour of religious tolerance entitled The Shortest-Way with the Dissenters ; Or, Proposals for the Establishment of the Church.

As a satirical utopia, Erewhon has sometimes been compared to Gulliver's Travels ( 1726 ), a classic novel by Jonathan Swift ; the image of Utopia in this latter case also bears strong parallels with the self-view of the British Empire at the time.

Formula fiction should not be confused with pastiche ( the mimicking of another work or author's style ), though the latter by its nature may include elements of the former ; the same holds true of some parody and satirical works as well, which may well include formulaic elements such as common stereotypes or caricatures, or which may use formulaic elements in order to mock them or point out their supposedly cliché or unrealistic nature.

However, in the last couple of years the British graffiti scene has been struck by self-titled ' art terrorist ' Banksy, who has revolutionized the style of UK graffiti ( bringing to the forefront stencils to aid the speed of painting ) as well as the content ; making his work largely satirical of the sociological state of cities, or the political climate of war, often using monkeys and rats as motifs.

From his first years in the École Normale, Sartre was one of its fiercest pranksters ; In 1927, his antimilitarist satirical cartoon in the revue of the school, coauthored with Georges Canguilhem, particularly upset the director Gustave Lanson.

Foster further asserts 1928 was a " peak year " for lesbian-themed literature ; in addition to The Well of Loneliness, three other novels with lesbian themes were published in England: Elizabeth Bowen's The Hotel, Woolf's Orlando, and Compton MacKenzie's satirical novel Extraordinary Women.

" The New Left later re-appropriated the term political correctness as satirical self-criticism ; per Debra Shultz: " Throughout the 1970s and 1980s, the New Left, feminists, and progressives.

Max Eastman defined the spectrum of satire in terms of " degrees of biting ," as ranging from satire proper at the hot-end, and " kidding " at the violet-end ; Eastman adopted the term kidding to denote what is just satirical in form, but is not really firing at the target.

It was not precisely a new form ; satirical waka was a style known since ancient times.

Such depictions are mostly dystopian, and in some cases humorous or satirical ; positively presented theocracies are very much the exception.

There were four major factors for this animosity: Paine denied that the Bible was a sacred, inspired text ; he argued that Christianity was a human invention ; his ability to command a large readership frightened those in power ; and his irreverent and satirical style of writing about Christianity and the Bible offended many believers.

; Standards bloat: Bertrand Meyer, in a satirical essay framed as a student's request for a grade change, apparently criticized UML as of 1997 for being unrelated to object-oriented software development ; a disclaimer was added later pointing out that his company nevertheless supports UML.

The trilogy is a satirical, postmodern, science fiction-influenced adventure story ; a drug -, sex -, and magic-laden trek through a number of conspiracy theories, both historical and imaginary, related to the authors ' version of the Illuminati.

Houyhnhnms ( or ; Swift apparently intended all words of the Houyhnhnm language to echo the neighing of horses ) are a race of intelligent horses described in the last part of Jonathan Swift's satirical Gulliver's Travels.

The Addamses are a satirical inversion of the ideal American family ; an eccentric, wealthy clan who delight in the macabre and are unaware that people find them bizarre or frightening.

Many humorous or satirical verses have been sung to this tune ; some of them vulgar.

The undergraduate men's newspaper is The Commentator, and the undergraduate women's The Observer, as well as a co-ed satirical news site The Quipster ; there is also a student newspaper ( in addition to a number of law journals ) at Cardozo.

The pieces are mostly bawdy, irreverent, and satirical ; they were written principally in Medieval Latin ; a few in Middle High German, and some with traces of Old French or Provençal.

Other likely influences were a visit made by Dickens to the Western Penitentiary in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania from March 20-22, 1842 ; the decade-long fascination on both sides of the Atlantic with spiritualism ; fairy tales and nursery stories ( which Dickens regarded as stories of conversion and transformation ); contemporary religious tracts about conversion ; and the works of Douglas Jerrold in general, but especially " The Beauties of the Police " ( 1843 ), a satirical and melodramatic essay about a father and his child forcibly separated in a workhouse, and another satirical essay by Jerrold which may have had a direct influence on Dickens ' conception of Scrooge called " How Mr. Chokepear keeps a merry Christmas " ( Punch, 1841 ).