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Updated: August 18, 2024
Tabarin's wits were not exhausted by this kind of buffoonery. He issued comic proclamations and almanacs, and even produced short farces in which his wife performed with him. From one of these farces Molière is supposed to have borrowed the ideas for his sack-scene in the Fourberies de Scapin.
The dialogue in question follows, at least so much of it as is in point, and will serve as tailpiece to the specimens of Tabarin's wit: Grat. I had a great discussion this morning with a philosopher, trying to prove to him that Nature often makes great mistakes. D. D. No, no, Grattelard: everything that Nature does is done for the best. Grat. Just wait now: let me tell you how I had to give in.
Tabarin's pleasantries, as jotted down by members of his audiences, have been given to the world at divers times in various forms, and have latterly been collected and published in a body with those of his less successful rival Grattelard; but very few of them are suited to nineteenth-century taste, and most of them are gross to the last degree.
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