TY  - BOOK
AU  - Gasté,Armand
TI  - Diderot et le Curé de Montchauvet: Une mystification littéraire chez le baron d'Holbach, 1754
AV  - PQ 
PY  - 2014///
CY  - Salt Lake City, UT
PB  - Project Gutenberg
KW  - Diderot, Denis, 1713-1784
KW  - Le Petit, Jean Baptiste, 1720?-1788
N1  - Release date is 2014-01-21; Produced by Clarity, Hélène de Mink, and the Online
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N2  - "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.)
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ER  -