TY - BOOK AU - Courteline,Georges AU - Schwob,Marcel AU - Sem TI - Messieurs les ronds-de-cuir AV - PQ PY - 2024/// CY - Salt Lake City, UT PB - Project Gutenberg KW - Humorous stories KW - France -- Fiction KW - Male white collar workers -- Fiction N1 - Wikipedia page about this book: https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Messieurs_les_ronds-de-cuir; Release date is 2024-12-08; Laurent Vogel (This file was produced from images generously made available by the Bibliothèque nationale de France (BnF/Gallica)); Originally published; Paris: Javal et Bourdeaux, 1927 N2 - "Messieurs les ronds-de-cuir" by Georges Courteline is a novel published between 1891 and 1893. Subtitled "Tableaux-roman de la vie de bureau" (Scenes from Office Life), this satirical work offers a cutting portrait of bureaucratic life that became an instant success. The novel popularized the French term "rond-de-cuir"—literally "leather cushion"—as an enduring expression for office workers and bureaucrats. Its sharp observations of workplace culture proved so resonant that the work inspired multiple theatrical and film adaptations throughout the twentieth century. (This is an automatically generated summary.) UR - https://gallica.bnf.fr/ark:/12148/bpt6k1525863r UR - https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/74861 ER -