Album of the Countess

On lAlbum of the Countess is a chronicle of Contrepèterie S published each week by the Duck connected .

This heading would owe its name with a Count is authenticated, an Irish which had married the count Maxime of the Cliff. To aggravate her husband of which it was divorcing, it would have authorized his friend Yvan Audouard to baptize of its name the heading for which it was responsible. She would have been unaware of until the term even spoonerism.

Some heard in this title the following spoonerism: Bang on the idiot of the highness , or Balsam on the idiot of the highness . However, these solutions are not rigorous: at best there would be Baume on the a' idiot of the highness , which remains nonadmissible. Joel Martin, current holding of the heading, affirms that there is no spoonerism in this title. However, while seeking well, one arrives at This man salts whose tail burns … It is certainly necessary for that to change all the sounds of place, but the spoonerism is then technically rigorous and has direction, the more so as until the end of the years 1980, this heading was entitled On the album of the Maxime countess of the Cliff .

The heading, after Yvan Audouard, was held by the draftsman Henri Monier, then by the mathematician, oulipien and humorist Luc Etienne.

Luc Etienne was assisted by the sendings of the readers of Duck. Some became disciples: Jacques Antel, which publishes in 1975 a collection entitled: the Whole of my vintage , and by Joel Martin, Physicist high level with the Commissariat à l'Energie Atomique, which, in 1984, with died of Luc Etienne, took again the heading.

the Duck connected published one day a poem which could be read with two different directions.

“Homage of theirs towards that to the envi poets

To the disappointed woman offer always burning

Flatter certainly the goal but does not alleviate the search:

Waiting has pleasures which one makes only one moment. ”

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