PODRÓŻNIK NOWEGO GATUNKU – HISTOIRE D’UN POU FRANÇOIS FRANÇOIS DELAUNEYA
Traveller of a New Kind – François Delauney’s Histoire d’un pou françois

Author(s): Przemysław Kossakowski
Subject(s): Theoretical Linguistics, Applied Linguistics, Studies of Literature, French Literature, Philology, Theory of Literature
Published by: Wydawnictwa Uniwersytetu Warszawskiego
Keywords: François Delauney; louse; French; US Independence War; travel
Summary/Abstract: François Delauney’s Histoire d’un pou françois is a late eighteenth-century satire against the young United States, kingdoms of France and Spain, as well as the British parliamentary Whig opposition to George III’s government. A French louse travels through countries, reading people’s thoughts and blaming their vices. Delauney’s satire is also a defence of the British parliamentary monarchy against republicanism and absolutism, and, above all, a virulent lampoon on the mankind’s meanness, its vices and ambitions contrasted with the louse’s philosophical attitude.

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