Dictionnaire des idées reçues

Dictionary of Received Ideas

Author

Gustave Flaubert

Language

French

Year

1913

Country

France

Genre

Nonfiction / Essays / Treatise

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The Dictionary of Received Ideas is a short satirical work collected and published in 1911–13 from notes compiled by Gustave Flaubert during the 1870s, lampooning the clichés endemic to French society under the Second French Empire. It takes the form of a dictionary of automatic thoughts and platitudes, self-contradictory and insipid. It is often paired with the Sottisier.