Professor Véronique Duché

A.R. Chisholm Professor of French, Faculty of Arts, University of Melbourne

Arts & Culture

Comedy in the trenches

Humour was a safety valve for trench-bound soldiers during the First World War and the language of the enemy was prime fodder, journals reveal

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