When “All of Geneva feted the ‘liberators’” The Restoration according to Louis Dumur

The tone of Un estomac d’Autriche undoubtedly has less to do with historical seriousness than with the grotesque. The atmosphere of the novel must be related to the carnivalesque spirit that Mikhail Bakhtin described a few decades later. The table to which Dumur invites his reader—at the welcome time of a restauration in two senses of the word—obviously has shades of Rabelais.