Virgile en France, ou la nouvelle Enëide, par Le Plat du Temple. First published in two volumes in 1807, and next at Offenbach in 1810, in 4 volumes, with very original notes.
L’Ovide Bouffon, ou les Metamorphoses Travesties, en vers Burlesques. Par L. Richer, Paris. The first edition was published either in 1661 or 1662. The fourth edition was published in 1665, prefaced by an amusing Madrigal written by Scarron.
Young Scarron. By Thomas Mozeen, actor and dramatist, 1752. This was written in imitation of Le Roman Comique of Scarron, to ridicule the lives and manners of stage itinerants, and the strolling players of England.
La Critique du Tartuffe, en un acte et en vers, a burlesque of Molière.
Le Lutrin; Poeme héroi-comique. Par Nicolas Boileau Despréaux.
This famous burlesque poem, which describes a very simple quarrel between two officials of a country church, is in heroic measure:—
“Je chante les combats et ce prélat terrible
Qui par ses longs travaux et sa force invincible,
Dans une illustre église exerçant son grand cœur,
Fit placer à la fin un lutrin dans le chœur.”