Project Gutenberg 2014-01-21 Public domain in the USA. 77 Gasté, Armand 1838 1902 Gaste, Armand Diderot et le Curé de Montchauvet Une mystification littéraire chez le baron d'Holbach, 1754 Produced by Clarity, Hélène de Mink, and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team at http://www.pgdp.net (This file was produced from images generously made available by The Internet Archive/Canadian Libraries) "Diderot et le Curé de Montchauvet" by Armand Gasté is a historical account written in the late 19th century. The book explores the interactions between the obscure poet-curé of Montchauvet and the prominent Enlightenment philosopher Denis Diderot, focusing on a literary mystification that took place among the Parisian intellectual elite during the mid-18th century. The narrative follows Abbé Le Petit, the curé of Montchauvet, who, feeling stifled by the dullness of rural life, travels to Paris with hopes of gaining fame as a poet. After a chance encounter with Diderot, he desperately seeks the philosopher's validation for his lengthy madrigal. Diderot, while initially patronizing, eventually introduces Le Petit to a circle of influential thinkers, setting the stage for a satirical reading of the curé's tragedy "David et Bethsabée." The reading becomes a comedic spectacle as the audience, knowing of the curé's lack of talent, mocks him under the guise of admiration. The book serves as a critique of artistic pretension and the fragility of the human ego in the face of social scrutiny, highlighting the clash between genuine artistic aspiration and the laughter of a skeptical society. (This is an automatically generated summary.) file:///public/vhost/g/gutenberg/html/files/44723/44723-h/images/cover.jpg fr Diderot, Denis, 1713-1784 Le Petit, Jean Baptiste, 1720?-1788 PQ Text FR Biographie, Mémoires, Journal intime, Correspondance Browsing: Biographies Browsing: History - European Browsing: Literature 102981 102989 2024-09-18T17:59:06.838852 2023-09-19T13:19:54.889851 text/html text/html 99370 2014-01-21T11:05:40 text/html; charset=iso-8859-1 76395 2014-01-21T11:05:40 text/html; charset=iso-8859-1 application/zip 89164 2024-09-18T17:59:10.082710 application/epub+zip 89413 2024-09-18T17:59:07.506730 application/epub+zip 83684 2024-09-18T17:59:07.160729 application/epub+zip 139335 2024-09-18T17:59:12.091719 application/x-mobipocket-ebook 126252 2024-09-18T17:59:09.665710 application/x-mobipocket-ebook 120895 2022-09-20T12:15:34.454901 application/x-mobipocket-ebook 80463 2024-09-18T17:59:06.482714 text/plain; charset=us-ascii 80364 2014-01-21T11:05:10 text/plain; charset=utf-8 32276 2014-01-21T11:05:40 text/plain; charset=utf-8 application/zip 78875 2014-01-21T11:05:38 text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 31993 2014-01-21T11:05:40 text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 application/zip 20206 2024-09-18T17:59:12.232689 application/rdf+xml 13041 2024-09-18T17:59:07.242717 image/jpeg 2478 2024-09-18T17:59:07.200740 image/jpeg 80307 2024-09-18T17:59:06.853722 application/octet-stream application/zip Archives containing the RDF files for *all* our books can be downloaded at https://www.gutenberg.org/wiki/Gutenberg:Feeds#The_Complete_Project_Gutenberg_Catalog