Le Lutrin, poème héroï-comique

The poem turns a petty dispute over a church lectern into an expansive mock-epic: a prelate, chanters, and chapter escalate private grievances into legal maneuvers, clandestine schemes, and comic skirmishes, while allegorical figures such as Discord and personified virtues magnify trivial jealousies into an absurdly grand conflict. Employing elevated diction, classical allusions, and epic structure for satirical effect, it exposes clerical vanity, procedural absurdities, and social pretensions, alternating narrative episodes, invocations, and set-piece scenes to ridicule institutional pettiness through formal irony.