French humor  

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Negroes Fighting in a Tunnel at Night (1882) by Paul Bilhaud, here shown in the 1887 version appropriated by Alphonse Allais as published in Album primo-avrilesque (April fool-ish Album)

This page French humor is part of the laughter series.
Illustration: Mona Lisa Smoking a Pipe by Eugène Bataille

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Google Wikipedia Wiktionary Wiki Commons Wikiquote Wikisource YouTube Shop Featured: Train wreck at Montparnasse (October 22, 1895) by Studio Lévy and Sons.

Two works document French humor, or the link between humor and avant-garde: A History of Derision, an aborted project by Atlas Press and Le Rire de résistance, a 2007 book by French author Jean-Michel Ribes.

Black comedy

black comedy

• Alphonse Allais
• Pierre Bourgeade
• Alfred Jarry
• Octave Mirbeau
• Gisèle Prassinos
• Anthology of Black Humor (1940) by André Breton

See also

• French caricature
• French popular culture
• French satire

French humor magazine

• La Caricature
• Le Charivari
• Le Rire
• Hara Kiri