Query: 1742 or French satirical novels
Domain: books
Relevant documents:
César Birotteau
Joseph Andrews
Rameau's Nephew
The Sofa: A Moral Tale
Clochemerle
We Three (novel)
L'Ingénu
Penguin Island (novel)
Bouvard et Pécuchet
A Secret History of Pandora's Box
Evidence from documents: César Birotteau: French satirical novels: '''''Histoire de la grandeur et de la décadence de César Birotteau''''' or '''''César Birotteau''''', is an 1837 novel by Honoré de Balzac
satirical: The novel is a partly satirical, partly sympathetic portrayal of the Parisian middle class.
Joseph Andrews: 1742 or French satirical novels: '''''The History of the Adventures of Joseph Andrews and of his Friend Mr. Abraham Adams''''', was the first full-length novel by the English author Henry Fielding to be published and among the early novels in the English language. Appearing in 1742 and defined by Fielding as a "comic epic poem in prose", it tells of a good-natured footman's adventures on the road home from London with his friend and mentor, the absent-minded parson Abraham Adams.
satirical: It was written by Shaun McKenna and incorporated a fictionalization of Fielding writing the novel with the help of his wife whilst the couple struggled for money in fear of retribution for some of Fielding's anonymous satires against the Tory government.
Rameau's Nephew: '''''Rameau's Nephew, or the Second Satire''''' (or '''The Nephew of Rameau''', ) is an imaginary philosophical conversation by Denis Diderot, probably written between 1761 and 1774.


It was first published in 1805 in German translation by Goethe, but the French manuscript used had subsequently disappeared. The German version was translated back into French by de Saur and Saint-Geniès and published in 1821. The first published version based on French manuscript appeared in 1823 in the Brière edition of Diderot's works. Modern editions are based on the complete manuscript in Diderot's own hand found by Georges Monval, the librarian at the Comédie-Française in 1890, while buying music scores from a second-hand bookshop in Paris. Monval published his edition of the manuscript in 1891. Subsequently, the manuscript was bought by the Pierpont Morgan Library in New York.
The Sofa: A Moral Tale: '''''The Sofa: A Moral Tale''''' () is a 1742 libertine novel by Claude Prosper Jolyot de Crébillon
Clochemerle: '''''Clochemerle''''', published in the United States as ''The Scandals of Clochemerle'', is a French satirical novel
L'Ingénu: '''''L'Ingénu''''' (, ; ), sometimes subtitled '''''The Sincere Huron''''' in English, is a satirical novella by the French philosopher Voltaire, published in 1767.
Penguin Island (novel): '''''Penguin Island''''' (1908; ) is a satirical fictional history by Nobel Prize-winning French author Anatole France.
Bouvard et Pécuchet: French satirical novels: an unfinished satirical novel by Gustave Flaubert, published in 1881 after his death in 1880.
French: Bouvard et Pécuchet'' details the adventures of two Parisian copy-clerks, François Denys Bartholomée Bouvard and Juste Romain Cyrille Pécuchet, of the same age and nearly identical temperament
A Secret History of Pandora's Box: '''''A Secret History of Pandora's Box''''' is an English erotic novel published anonymously in 1742 by the London publishers Mary Cooper and her husband.