Diablerie
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| The 1978 book ''[[Diableries : La Vie Quotidienne Chez Satan a la Fin du 19e Siecle]]'' documents certain [[diorama]]s within the genre. [[Eugène le Poitevin]] is famous for his ''[[Les Diableries Erotiques]]''. | The 1978 book ''[[Diableries : La Vie Quotidienne Chez Satan a la Fin du 19e Siecle]]'' documents certain [[diorama]]s within the genre. [[Eugène le Poitevin]] is famous for his ''[[Les Diableries Erotiques]]''. | ||
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| - | Diableries illustrate how -- before the "invention" of erotica and pornography -- [[body part]]s and the people possessing them were used for subversive purposes, here as a form of [[satirical pornography or pornographic satire]]. The genre goes back to [[Rabelais]], although his masterpiece ''[[Gargantua and Pantagruel]]'' was more [[emetic]] than [[erotic]]. | ||
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Diablerie is a genre of French satire, often by extreme exaggeration. The term diablerie stems from diable, which is French for devil.
The 1978 book Diableries : La Vie Quotidienne Chez Satan a la Fin du 19e Siecle documents certain dioramas within the genre. Eugène le Poitevin is famous for his Les Diableries Erotiques.
See also
- Diableries : La Vie Quotidienne Chez Satan a la Fin du 19e Siecle, a book by Jac Remise published by André Balland in 1978.
- Les Diableries Erotiques by Eugène le Poitevin
- Diabolico foutro manie is a series of lithographs by Achille Devéria
- Singerie
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