1 the Comic Revolution in Central Europe 1815-1914 1 ARGUMENTAIRE 2 The comic, cognitive mechanism for differentiation — The Comic revolution of the nineteenth century 2 The speeches of the Rire 4 The aesthetic disorder: between erudition and trivialisation 4 QUEL CORPUS? 6 plan 7 I Comic editing and trivialisation 7 II Political uses Populism, Nationalism, Excluvism 7 III Emblem and Fetiche (Eros and Thanatos) 7