Note 269 — Chapter X · LAUGHTER OF THE INDIVIDUAL: HUMOUR.
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M. Bédier has a delicate characterisation of this French spirit in the Contes; touching on its want of depth and arrière-pensée, its spice of malice, its joyous good sense, its irony, which though a little coarse is yet precise and just, op. cit., p. 278.