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‖ comédie|kɔmedi|
[Fr., see comedy1.]
The French word for ‘comedy’, used in certain phrases.
comédie humaine |ymɛn|, the title given by Balzac to his series of novels; hence, the sum of human activities, or a literary portrait of the same.
[1842H. de Balzac Œuvres Complètes (1855) I. 1 En donnant à une œuvre entreprise depuis bientôt treize ans, le titre de La Comédie humaine, il est nécessaire d'en dire la pensée, d'en raconter l'origine, d'en expliquer brièvement le plan.] 1876Gent. Mag. XVII. 413 The artist who ignores the existence of even improbable exceptions gives..a very false representation of the comédie humaine. 1935A. Huxley Let. June (1969) 397 Amusing to observe, as a rather discreditable episode in the Comédie Humaine. 1948Blunden Shakespeare to Hardy xi. 160 In the power of exploring the comédie humaine, Dickens had no superior anywhere. 1967P. E. H. Durston Mortissimo (1968) ix. 68 He watched this protected and sun-blessed segment of the comédie humaine.
comédie larmoyante |larmwajɑ̃t| [lit. ‘tearful comedy’; orig. applied to plays of P. C. Nivelle de La Chaussée (1692–1754); cf. larmoyant a.], a sentimental, moralizing comedy of a kind fashionable in eighteenth-century France.
1801M. Edgeworth Belinda II. xiii. 30, I advise you to write a sentimental comedy, a comédie larmoyante. 1966Listener 17 Feb. 256/3 The Thieving Magpie..is essentially a comédie larmoyante.
comédie noire |nwar|, a macabre or farcical rendering of a violent or tragic theme; cf. black comedy (black a. 8 b).
1958Times 18 Nov. 13/5 This diverting comédie noire. 1964Guardian 8 July 7/6 Of course the car and plane crash and Vesuvius erupts. That's satire, see, comédie noire. |