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Profile of Alphonse Allais
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Alphonse Allais |
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20th October 1854 |
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Honfleur, Calvados, France |
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From Wikipedia, the free Encyclopedia Alphonse Allais (October 20, 1854 - October 28, 1905) was a French writer and humorist, born in Honfleur, Calvados.
He is the author of many collections of whimsical writings. A poet as much as a humorist, he in particular cultivated the verse form known as holorhyme, i.e. made up entirely of homophonous verses, where entire lines rhyme. For example:
- par les bois du djinn où s'entasse de l'effroi,
- parle et bois du gin ou cent tasses de lait froid.
Principal works
- À se tordre 1891
- Vive la vie!, 1892
- Deux et deux font cinq, 1895
- Amours, délices et orgues, 1898
- Ne nous frappons pas (literally We Do Not Strike), 1900
External link
- Works by Alphonse Allais at Project Gutenberg
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