Thiéblemont, André <br/><br/>
The Army, a Joking Society 

 -  2023.<br/>							 
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<br/><br/> Humour among soldiers is very real; it is not an epiphenomenon, but a characteristic feature of French military culture. Jokes, puns, caricatures and hoaxes are not out of place. Whether explicitly or otherwise, these attitudes play a social, and even a political or psychological function, to the point of becoming a principle of life.