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La Panhypocrisiade, ou la comédie infernale du seizième siècle (The Panhypocrisiade, or The Infernal Comedy of the Sixteenth Century) is a poem in sixteen cantos by Louis Jean Népomucène Lemercier, composed essentially under the French Consulate but not published until 1819 (see 1819 in poetry).

The work is similar to Tragiques by Agrippa d'Aubigné, which has a similar style. The poem contains a conversation between a worm and Death, the complaints of an oak tree assailed by soldiers, an argument between Martin Luther and the Devil, and a visit to Rabelais by Reason personified, among other étrangetés.

A passage from the section featuring Rabelais gives an idea of the surprising style of this poem:

A fully digitized copy of the 1819 edition of the text can be found by searching the Gallica project of the Bibliothèque Nationale de France.

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Panhypocrisiade Wikipedia