Alphonse Allais

Alphonse Allais (1854–1905) was a French writer and humorist born in Honfleur, Calvados, who died in Paris. He is the author of many collections of whimsical writings. A poet as much as a humorist, he cultivated the verse form known as holorhyme, i.e. made up entirely of homophonous verses, where entire lines are pronounced the same. (Photo credit: Revue des deux Mondes)