thumb|La Palice's epitaph, which lead to this figure of speech. A lapalissade is an obvious truth—i.e. a truism or tautology—which produces a comical effect. It is derived from the name Jacques de la Palice, and the word is used in several languages.
thumb|La Palice's epitaph, which lead to this figure of speech. A lapalissade is an obvious truth—i.e. a truism or tautology—which produces a comical effect. It is derived from the name Jacques de la Palice, and the word is used in several languages.
==Origin== La Palice's epitaph reads:
Discovered by embedding cosine similarity (sentence-transformers MiniLM, 384-dim).