the sotie or sottie is a political part, of topicality, played by the Sots or the Child-without-Concern . The Sots base their system of Satire on this assumption that the very whole company is made up of insane . Over their costume, they cover the attributes which indicate such or such state, such or such function: the judge, the soldier, the monk, the noble one, etc

Mr. EM. Barb, in its study on the Sotie in France (in-8, 1878), twenty-six account parts of this kind. It points out that the sotie was often represented with a joke and a Moralité , in multiple spectacles; in this case one started with the sotie , kind of parade bouffonne. The Sotie did not have always full freedom; its more brilliant period places under Louis XII.

Principal soties

• In 1508, them Child-without Souci play the Nouveau World , whose probable author is André of the Vine; the part is relating to the abolition of the Pragmatic Sanction of Bourges by Louis XI, and to the hopes of its re-establishment by Louis XII.

• In 1512, Pierre Gringoire, or Gringore, makes represent the Jeu of the Prince of Stupid the , part in which it attacks violently, with the permission of the king and in his presence, the pope Jules II and the Church. This work includes/understands a great number of characters, inter alia: the Prince of Stupid the figure the king Louis XII; Mother-Stupid , the Church; Stupid-Commune , it is the people, etc the Jeu of the Prince of the Stupid is a series of satirical allusions, current events highly expressed by the contemporaries. It was followed of a Moralité entitled: French people, Italic People, the stubborn Man , devoted she also to the contentions of Louis XII with the pope Jules II; this one being the stubborn Man .