Belly laughs—at an art festival

This year’s Festival de l’histoire de l’art—a French art history festival for professionals and amateurs, held in Fontainebleau southeast of Paris—has a rather funny theme: laughter. A comic element underpins some of the events taking place between 3 June and 5 June, covering topics like caricatures and jest in religious art through round-table discussions, exhibitions, tours of the town's famous Renaissance château and