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Hood in an anti-monastic song

capuchon

A hood, the single costume addition by which the comic song turns Saint Anthony’s pig into a monk.

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The Gods Are Athirst

Anatole France · Diotimos Editions · 2026

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Meaning

Lemma.

A hood, the single costume addition by which the comic song turns Saint Anthony’s pig into a monk. The point is irreverent reduction of religious identity to dress. The song is embedded entertainment sung by Desmahis, not a literal narrative event or the narrator’s instruction to create a monk.

Places to read

  1. Chapter X, paragraph 63aFrenchun capuchon: A hood. The garment effects the comic transformation in the quoted song.