Word: charletan
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Along with his saturnine sideman, Georges Pompidou, "le grand Charletan" provided the Duck with a target as big as the Ritz. He was caricatured endlessly and uproariously as an arrogant, sleepy-eyed, bulbous-nosed autocrat...
Anything but chained, the Duck pokes more fun at the man it calls "le grand Charletan" than any other French publication. Nor does it spare anyone else who merits attack. Last week the eight-page weekly celebrated 50 years of ridiculing the high and the mighty, the smug and the pretentious in French life. Proud of the Duck's surviving without mellowing, staffers boast: "The duck still has all its teeth...
...applies for admission in the Atomic Club, he is asked to produce his bomb. "I haven't got one," he replies. "It went off." In its bitterness, the magazine is losing some of its sense of humor. De Gaulle is no longer Le Grand Chariot but Le Grand Charletan...
RAIN-People are now beginning to boast about the number of times they have seen the courtesan destroy the charletan...
RAIN?People are now beginning to boast about the number of times they have seen the courtesan destroy the charletan...