Bouvard et Pecuchet

With an inheritance, they leave their narrow lives to settle in the countryside. Taken by a frenzy to learn, they devour encyclopaedias and textbooks and apply their new knowledge with naive enthusiasm. Agriculture, science, arts, politics, religion, all fields pass through, resulting in untimely fiascos.

Marc Chouppart and Jean-Paul Farré combine their talents as duetists to deliver you a faithful and clownish version of Flaubert's latest work. Here is a pleasant textbook of absurd sciences that offers a welcome alternative to artificial intelligence!