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The major part of L'Homme Qui Rit is like the utterance of a drunk child who had something of the pseudo-Homeric Margites in him, who "knew a great many things and knew them all badly."

From A History of the French Novel, Vol. 2 To the Close of the 19th Century by Saintsbury, George