French satire
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Notable examples
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Renaissance
- Gargantua and Pantagruel ( c. 1532 – c. 1564) by François Rabelais
- Apologie pour Herodote by Henri Estienne
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17th century
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18th century
- Candide, ou l'Optimisme (1759) is a French language picaresque novel by the Enlightenment philosopher Voltaire.
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19th century
The Hierarchy of Cuckoldry by Charles Fourier (not published until 1924)
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20th century
- Anatole France - Penguin Island, a utopia
- Les Caves du Vatican by André Gide
- le Canard Enchaîné publishes satirical cartoons and columns along with well-researched information on French political or economic life.
- Hara-Kiri (magazine)
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Further reading
- La satire en France au moyen-âge (1883) by Charles Félix Lenient
- Histoire de la caricature au moyen âge et sous la renaissance (1870) by Champfleury
- Le genre satirique, fantastique et licencieux dans la sculpture flamande et wallonne (1870) by Champfleury
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See also
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