Descartes walks into a restaurant.
The waiter hands him a menu and Descartes studies it briefly before ordering a steak.
The waiter asks “Would you like wine with that? and Descartes replies “I think not”....and then -vanishes-!
Descartes was only the second greatest french philosopher, his work being greatly superceded by that of Jean-Paul Deshors.
Despite the obvious inferiority of his work, the popular appeal has most professors of philosophy still putting Descartes before Deshors.