Dictionary of the silly thing

The Dictionary of the silly thing and the error of judgments , published in 1965 by Guy Bechtel and Jean-Claude Carrière, contains “pure gibberish, blunders and Cacographie S, put out of order and absurd thoughts, more or less hazardous assumptions concerning the universal history or the biography of the people, to what one added a certain number of stupidities, madnesses or imaginations of all kinds and several balivernes”.

The goal of this work, clarified in foreword, is to rehabilitate the silly things uttered during the history in their giving the place which they should occupy, because they have truly a decisive place in the formation of the universal human knowledge.

Examples of “silly things”

Bidegain (Jean): Unforgettable : “The name of Mr. Jean Bidegain belongs, from now on, with the history” ( the illustration , January 7th, 1905).
Balls: First of all : “So that the balls have a normal rotation, it is necessary that they are round” (Jules Arnous de Rivière, popular Traité of the play of billiards , 1891)

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