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French literature often seems very serious, but there's a lot of laughter in French too! This course aims to show you how much, in plays, movies, comedy sketches, novels and a few unclassifiable hoots from the seventeenth century to our own. It will certainly stretch your linguistic abilities and probe the difficult question of whether French laughter belongs to the universal human capacity for fun, or whether it is a different kettle of fish.