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 "corpus": "farce",
 "seat": "EA-CORPORA-18/06",
 "title": "French farce and the comic monologue of the fin de siècle — Labiche, Courteline, Allais",
 "edition": "Eugène Labiche and Édouard Martin, Le Voyage de Monsieur Perrichon, comédie en quatre actes (1860), in an American school edition with an English introduction (c. 1905); Georges Courteline, Messieurs les ronds-de-cuir (1893), in the edition with fifteen watercolours by Sem (Paris: Javal et Bourdeaux, 1927); Alphonse Allais, À se tordre: histoires chatnoiresques (1891); Alphonse Allais, Deux et deux font cinq (2 + 2 = 5) (Paris: Ollendorff, 1895)",
 "language": "fra",
 "license": {
  "payload": "Public domain: Labiche d. 1888, Martin d. 1866, Courteline d. 1929, Allais d. 1905. Project Gutenberg packaging under the PG licence.",
  "record": "CC-BY-4.0 applies to this seat record only."
 },
 "fetched": "2026-10-15",
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    "source": "Project Gutenberg",
    "ebook": "74861",
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    "source": "Project Gutenberg",
    "ebook": "13834",
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    "ebook": "23444",
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  "fetched": "2026-10-15",
  "transport": "in-session fetch (Transport D); No-Double-Draw"
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    "slug": "labiche-le-voyage-de-monsieur-perrichon-1860",
    "work": "Eugène Labiche and Édouard Martin, Le Voyage de Monsieur Perrichon, comédie en quatre actes (1860), in an American school edition with an English introduction (c. 1905)",
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    "work": "Georges Courteline, Messieurs les ronds-de-cuir (1893), in the edition with fifteen watercolours by Sem (Paris: Javal et Bourdeaux, 1927)",
    "text": "text/courteline-messieurs-les-ronds-de-cuir-1893.txt",
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    "slug": "allais-a-se-tordre-1891",
    "work": "Alphonse Allais, À se tordre: histoires chatnoiresques (1891)",
    "text": "text/allais-a-se-tordre-1891.txt",
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    "slug": "allais-deux-et-deux-font-cinq-1895",
    "work": "Alphonse Allais, Deux et deux font cinq (2 + 2 = 5) (Paris: Ollendorff, 1895)",
    "text": "text/allais-deux-et-deux-font-cinq-1895.txt",
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 "scope": "The farce proper is also seated in 18/05 (Ubu) and 18/03 (the Futurist synthetic theatre). Feydeau's plays and the medieval Farce de Maître Pathelin were not located on the reachable sources in this pass; QUEUED. Aristophanes and Plautus are on the shelf already (cards 03/xx, aristophanes).",
 "verified_loci": [
  "Le Voyage de Monsieur Perrichon — the title role",
  "À se tordre — 'histoires chatnoiresques', the Chat Noir cabaret"
 ],
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 "lines_total": 28905,
 "why_seated": "The comic mechanism the avant-garde inherited: Labiche's machinery of misunderstanding and Allais's deadpan. Allais's blank rectangle, 'Première communion de jeunes filles chlorotiques par un temps de neige' (the Incohérents, 1883; printed in the Album primo-avrilesque, 1897), is the monochrome thirty years before Malevich and the joke Dada would make a programme.",
 "spine": "Farce",
 "ruling": "Lee Sharks, 2026-10-15: \"we need more seatings of avant garde literature. dada. farce. oulipo. futurist. - whatevers in the public domain. originals is good on classics, impoverished on modern. and i want the italian troubadors. and pound, more pound. need the cantos.\" — \"and the concrete poets\" — \"also need jarry, schlovsky, etc\" — \"it gets an ea-corpora deposit and a spine and a card on tll, bulk seatings per ea-corpora deposit is fine\"."
}