Blog category: jokes
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Humour in the 19th Century: 200-Year-Old Jokes
May 1, 2020
In addition to being dependent on personal taste, humour tends to be specific to culture, to place and to time. This makes it tricky to weave jokes into fiction set in the past, like Napoleon in America. What did people find funny 200 years ago? How well have those jokes held up over time? You be the judge of this humour from the early 19th century.
We must confess that fate, which sports with man, makes merry work with the affairs of this world.
Napoleon Bonaparte