Le moyen de parvenir, tome 2/3

A second-volume miscellany of satirical, episodic prose that blends mock-sermons, playful anecdotes, and bawdy tales to ridicule social climbing, clerical hypocrisy, pedantry, and fashionable affectation. A recurring storyteller offers lewd and comic vignettes alongside pseudo-philosophical dissertations, etymological jokes, and grotesque bodily humor, while parables, mock-legal and mock-medical cases punctuate the flow. The tone shifts between keenly wrought erudition and coarse farce, employing parody, irony, and digression to expose linguistic absurdities, vanity, and moral contradiction in contemporary manners.