Wikipedia page about this book: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dictionary_of_Received_Ideas Wikipedia page about this book: https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dictionnaire_des_id%C3%A9es_re%C3%A7ues

Release date is 2004-11-26

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"Dictionnaire des idées reçues" by Gustave Flaubert is a satirical dictionary compiled during the 1870s and published in 1911-13. This wickedly funny work catalogs the clichés and automatic thoughts that plagued French society under the Second Empire. Structured as a mock dictionary, it exposes the absurdity of received wisdom through entries that reveal self-contradictory platitudes and insipid commonplaces. Flaubert spent his life perfecting this devastating critique of stupidity, creating a book where readers would fear speaking lest they repeat one of its skewered phrases. (This is an automatically generated summary.)

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