Translations:CP 02913/49/en
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- ↑ Mirbeau is chiefly known as the author of Vingt-et-un jours d'un neurasthénique (1901), a satirical novel whose main character is called le colonel baron de Présalé. As for Courteline, several of his numerous plays are send ups of military life: Les Gaîtés de l'escadron (1886), his first play, a military fantasy in nine scenes which portrays the soldiers as "shirkers" and their non-commissioned officers as "little chiefs"; written for the théâtre de l'Ambigu-Comique in February 1895, it was reprised at the Théâtre Antoine in 1899 and banned by the board of censors during the Dreyfus affair. See also Le 51e Chasseurs (1887); La Vie de caserne (1895); Les tire-au-cul: les gaîtés de l'escadron (1904) ; as well as several of his short stories and novels, such as Le train de 8 h 47 (1888). [PK, FL]