The white elephant or the political taboo in revolutionary France
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Revolution, taboo, Jean-Claude Gorjy, ’Ann’quin Bredouille, French literatureAbstract
Many pamphlets and books written during the French Revolution address the controversial subject of the monarchy, its fall and the new order. However, Jean-Claude Gorjy’s ’Ann’quin Bredouille is certainly one of the most fascinating examples. In his book, Gorjy ridicules the new revolutionary reality and points out its many social, political, cultural and linguistic absurdities. The aim of this paper is to present the story of the white elephant, told in the third volume of ’Ann’quin Bredouille, in order to analyze how Gorjy confronted the political taboo during the revolutionary period as well as to explain why he decided to use an allegory instead of making an explicit reference to King Louis XVI and the Ancien Régime.
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