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Ver-Vert, or the Nunnery Parrot
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Ver-Vert, or the Nunnery Parrot

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  • Gresset, oil painting by Louis Tocqué; in the Château de Versailles
    Jean-Baptiste-Louis Gresset

    …comic narrative poem Ver-Vert (1734; Ver-Vert, or the Nunnery Parrot), describing with wit tinged with malice the adventures of a parrot who attempts to maintain his decorous convent background while on a visit to another convent.

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    …comic narrative poem Ver-Vert (1734; Ver-Vert, or the Nunnery Parrot), describing with wit tinged with malice the adventures of a parrot who attempts to maintain his decorous convent background while on a visit to another convent.

    Read More