Regiment de la Calotte

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The Régiment de la Calotte (German the Kalottisten ) was a French fools' association founded in 1702 by Phillipe Emmanuel de La Place de Torsac and Étienne Isidore Théophile Aymon. By denouncing foolish behavior, it formed a kind of moral police, similar to the Babinic Republic .

history

The regiment was a kind of informal brotherhood that issued fool's awards to those in power and courtiers who had made a fool of themselves.

The calotte referred to in the name is not the ecclesiastical one ( pileolus ), but the "calotte de plomb", the leaden cap (an outdated French expression for "knock someone down"), which was once said to have the hairstyle someone who could assert himself with his ideas with a "light head" - who could solve a problem with humor. A suggested member was anyone who, in a situation, had pulled himself out of an affair in an unusual way that was beyond the scope of politeness or decency. If the proposed person refused the nomination and thus the admission or refused the atonement work assigned to him, he was declared ridiculous by everyone. The society awarded various badges and patents in the form of fool symbols such as bells and bells. To be proposed as a member was anything but an honor, which clearly set the regiment apart from other fools' associations.

The Kalottisten were under the reign of Louis XIV and at the beginning that of Louis XV. very active. The activities were gradually reduced under the influence of Madame de Pompadour's takeover and finally ceased completely under the ministry of Cardinal André-Hercule de Fleury .

The abbot Pierre François Guyot Desfontaines and Guillaume Plantavit de La Pause were the most important authors of the Mémoires pour servir à l'histoire de la Calotte , the records of the history of the calotte. The satirical manuscripts circulated between 1702 and 1725 and were printed in 1732. The fictitious address in the volumes was:

"Moropolis, Chez le Libraire de Momus, à l'enseigne du Jésuite démasqué"

"Moropolis, at the library of Momus, under the sign of the revealed Jesuit"

Motto

  1. Favet momus, luna influit
  2. Ridere regna est

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Meyers Konversationslexikon from 1888
  2. ↑ Hébert Le père Duchesne, n ° 307 (Notes) ( Memento of the original of November 26, 2006 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link has been inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.royet.org
  3. ↑ Desfontaines was a Jesuit, but the word was originally used as a mockery, cf. the French article

Web links

literature

  • Léon Hennet, Le Régiment de la Calotte , Paris, Librairie des Bibliophiles, 1886.