Little story

The little story is the description of the Histoire centered on the Anecdote S and the details, thus illustrating this one often in an ironic way .

Contexts

It is often introduced into the texts descriptive, encyclopedic or even oral examinations and didactic by the expression “ For the little story,… ” or “ For the anecdote,… ”.

The purpose of it is often to tell a detail of an event or life of a person in order to illustrate a specific or ironic character of a situation, or quite simply to break the monotony of a talk by showing a concrete detail.

Nevertheless, it happens sometimes that under the term “little story” hides in fact simply a urban Légende which is hawked continuously and shown like true (at the time of course to pupils for example).

Examples

  • Only one actor could play Cyrano of Bergerac without resorting to a false nose: Daniel Sorano.

  • the inventor of the Integrated circuit, Jack Kilby, made this discovery while his/her colleagues were on vacation.
  • Baum sought the name to give to the imaginary country which he wanted to create, when he saw in front of him a dictionary in two volumes, YEAR and OZ, which gave the country of OZ.
  • In 1935 at the time of a debate to the National Assembly, Pierre Laval defines, at the request of a deputy, a blunt Objet as being very object “ when one is caught it on the figure ”.
  • Hitler interdict in 1941 the film the Dictator , but a copy kept some which it was made project at least twice.
  • Besides, Hitler was decorated with the Croix of iron at the time of the First World War on recommendation of a Jewish officer.
  • the first funds of investments in Hi-Toro, old name of the company Amiga, were it by a group of dentists.
  • Often, a Computer terminal is limited to the posting of 80 character S maximum by line, limiting inherited the perforated cards which coded each character on a column of holes (the eighty column cards were most widespread).
  • …

See too

  • List of the passages of the little story on Wikipedia:
    • introduced by “for the little story”
    • introduced by “for the anecdote”

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