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Settle your account with stupidity: vast program. Yet it is the one that several fine minds of the English 18th century have set themselves: in 1714 in London, Jonathan Swift, Alexander Pope, John Arbuthnot and a few others founded the Scriblerus Club. Thecribbler, in English, it is our “scribouillard”, or even the “plumitif”, even the “cuistre” – as many concentric targets as the creators of Gulliver, John Bull or the Dunciad have made it their mission to atomize with great blows of satirical projectiles and bursts of laughter.
