For fifteen years and several times a week, Alphonse Allais has distributed joy to thousands of readers. So, in the wagons that suburbs bring Paris workers and workers, small and small employees, in the subway, in the omnibus (there was no bus yet), in the street, we heard this sentence: - - "Have you read this one this morning? It was Alphonse Allais's article, and for a few moments these humble people might have thought that life was funny. Moving result! The explanation of this success is that Allais Allais had taste. Pugliness, baseness, hypocrisy, greed, wickedness horrified him.