Farceurs [noun]

Imagine a shantyman (farceur as he ever was) making for edification in that style!

The tight-fisted little farceur had a confused reverence for anything that seemed to him refined or clever.

Huysmans the farceur, the Jules Verne of sthetics, is enjoying himself.

That half farceur, half ruffian, who had the characteristics of a modern anarchist, was a genius for organization.

Is Legouv a cold farceur, a Swift, who tried whether France would swallow a new absurdity?

He would have given far more than thirty dollars a month for this drama; for he was not only rich, but a great farceur.

All this had its use, and many of the sufferers long since became the farceur's devoted friends.

The name of the Medici naturally gave rise to many jests, and one of these is narrated of Gonella, a famous farceur.

The firmament is not to be shaken, but Annibale is not a farceur, nor his Blessed One absurd.

He was by turns a farceur, a wit, a man of emotion, a man with a touch of genius.