[2] According to the medievalist Bruno Roy [fr], the most likely author is Triboulet, the jester and comedy playwright of René of Anjou.

Medieval farce came after a large swell in other types of drama, which included a lengthening of the plays, particularly mystères.

The church did not endorse the Feast of Fools, the largest reason being that one of the four types of popular farces at the time was a direct mockery of religious sermons.

References to religion and politics were accessible to everybody, and the debate about the moral views depicted in farce continues to this day.

Because of Joceaulme's incoherent case against the shepherd (and the latter's one word nonsense response of "Baaa"), the judge rules against him.

Instead of following a structure of the virtuous hero and the vicious villain, French farce would instead take the side of the person who was the most clever.

As History of Theatre states it, “The clever man, even if a sinner, is usually the hero; the dupes deserve their fates because they are stupid or gullible”.

[4] La Farce de Maitre Pierre Pathelin has been known to have a great impact on plays of the past and present.

It was ahead of its time; keeping the comedic vigor of many other plays, while also introducing some unseen tactics into farce itself.