# La boucle de cheveux enlevée

_Poème héroïcomique de Monsieur Pope_

By Alexander Pope.

"La boucle de cheveux enlevée" by Alexander Pope is a mock-heroic narrative poem first published in 1712. Based on a real social scandal, the poem transforms a trivial incident—a lord secretly cutting off a lock of a lady's hair—into an elaborate epic parody complete with guardian spirits called sylphs. Pope uses the grand style of classical epics to satirize fashionable society, elevating a minor breach of etiquette to mythological proportions while exploring themes of beauty, vanity, and reputation in eighteenth-century aristocratic life. (Summary by Project Gutenberg, written by machine.)

- Language: French
- Translator: Madame de Caylus
- Subjects: English poetry -- Translations into French; Young women -- Poetry; Catholics -- England -- Poetry

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