He was by turns a farceur, a wit, a man of emotion, a man with a touch of genius.
"The Way of Ambition"
Robert Hichens
While the lady at the needle kept up a little running, contemptuous comment: "Blagueur-farceur-gros bete, va!"
"The Awakening and Selected Short Stories"
Kate Chopin
For he was in the early steps of his career, and if his lady, holding to pride, despised him-as, he was tortured into the hypocrisy of confessing, she justly might, why, then, unless he was the sport of a farceur, here seemed a gilding of the path of duty: he could be serviceable to friends.
"The Complete Project Gutenberg Works of George Meredith"
George Meredith