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Underground Humor
Joesten, Joachim | May 22, 1943 issue

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The article presents anecdotes that are offered as typical examples of the humor that the people are using as a weapon in oppressed France. One of the anecdotes given in the article is: At a Cabinet meeting in Vichy Pierre Laval observed that one of his councilors, a professor of the University of Paris, nonchalantly drew forth first his handkerchief, then an offensive-looking pipe, and then an even shabbier tobacco pouch, ranging these objects on the table before him. Laval, aghast at this lack of etiquette, exclaimed, "But, Monsieur, you empty your pockets!" Whereupon the savant retorted, "Isn't that better than if I filled them?"

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ANECDOTES; WIT & humor; LAVAL, Pierre, 1883-1945; ETIQUETTE; CONDUCT of life; FRANCE
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