Abstract
Politics at the risk of scoffing. In the political world, scoffing holds a peculiar place. Always present, it is hardly ever described. And yet since the early 19th century and moreover after the setting up of manhood suffrage in 1848, it has been used as a basis for criticism and as a founding stone of electoral folklore. In Lozère, on the eve of an élection the press of the catholic party tries to ridicule applicants of the other side through small dialogues in "occitan". As a rule, scoffing is done by emphasizing differences : those of the Jews, the free-masons, and the republicans. Nowadays political scoffing is still efficient. During the electoral campaigne of 1986 in Lozère and Languedoc-Roussillon, the candidates tried to use it for their own sake. For all these political men, scoffing becomes a weapon, but also a test, an ordeal one must go through. It evolves between enticement and reproof. Everyone, whether a candidate or a humourist, must know its location and its boundaries.
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