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...ume II: The Second T en T ales by Honore de Balzac Droll Stories Collected from the Abbeys of Touraine A Penn State Electronic Classics Series Publica... ...lzac Droll Stories Volume T wo by Honore de Balzac Droll Stories Collected from the Abbeys of Touraine VOLUME II: The Second T en T ales PROLOGUE CERT... ...e their minds easy, assures them that he has, legally protected and exempt from seizure, seventy droll stories, in that reservoir of nature, his brain... ... of whom there are not more than seven perfect in the great ocean of human writers, others, although friendly, have been of opinion that, at a time wh... ...d make them breed little ones by this excited movement. He was a native of Picardy, and very passionate; a man to take offence at anything in order th... ... little cough, he related the following:— “You must know that the maids of Picardy, before setting up housekeeping, are accustomed honestly to gain th... ... gain something. “‘Very well; I will employ you,’ said the wag. ‘I am from Picardy, and will get you taken in here, where you will be treated as a que...

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...only what his tale may have had of interest and poesy with the coolness of writers who forget to put on the title pages of their books: “Translated fr... ...f writers who forget to put on the title pages of their books: “Translated from the German.” THOUGHT AND ACT TOWARD THE END OF VENEMIAIRE, year VII., ... ...dernach, a small town standing on the left bank of the Rhine a few leagues from Coblentz. At that time the French army, commanded by Augereau, was man... ...ies invaded by our troops. At this period many sons of good families taken from 7 Balzac their medical studies by the recent conscription law due to ... ... longer; he was seized by that short and rapid madness known to the men of Picardy; he sprang to the wall, and if I had not caught him, he would 22 T...

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...heir readers. Historical independence has shown itself much less among lay writers than among those of the Church. It is from the Benedictines, one of... ...n itself much less among lay writers than among those of the Church. It is from the Benedictines, one of the glories of France, that the purest light ... ...understood. A few more Abbe de Pradits, a few more newspaper articles, and from being an emperor, Napoleon would have turned into an ogre. How does er... ...dern history, no woman, unless it be Brunehaut or Fredegonde, has suffered from popular error so much as Catherine dé Medici; whereas Marie dé Medici,... ... it with admirable courage and persistency. The reproaches which Calvinist writers have cast upon her are to her glory; she incurred them by reason on... ...ermanent conspiracy.” We admire the anti-social maxims put forth by daring writers; why, then, this disapproval which, in France, attaches to all soci... ...man fought with the devil and flung an inkbottle at his head, the man from Picardy, a sickly celi- bate, made plans of campaign, directed battles, arm... ... whose name was not Calvin but Cauvin, was the son of a cooper at Noyon in Picardy. The region of his birth explains in some degree the obstinacy comb... ...despotic and as cruel as the lawyer of Arras. It is a noticeable fact that Picardy (Arras and Noyon) furnished both these instruments of reformation! ...

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...ands which men devout By testament have given to the church Would they strip from us; being valued thus: As much as would maintain, to the king’s hono... ... sports, And never noted in him any study, Any retirement, any sequestration From open haunts and popularity. ELY: The strawberry grows underneath th... ... some certain dukedoms And generally to the crown and seat of France Derived from Edward, his great grandfather. ELY: What was the impediment that br... ...French Beyond the river Sala, in the year Eight hundred five. Besides, their writers say, King Pepin, which deposed Childeric, Did, as heir general, b... ... us word of England’s fall. [Exeunt.] ACT III SCENE VI: The English camp in Picardy. [Enter GOWER and FLUELLEN, meeting.] GOWER: How now, Captain Fl...

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... to save the face of Germany by ini- tiating peace negotiations. But apart from their steady record and reminder of German brutalities and German aggr... ...what he has seen among the submarines, and Mr. Hugh Walpole catches things from Mr. Stephen Gra- ham in the Dark Forest of Russia. All this is quite o... ...olved that Italy shall not feel neglected by the refusal of the invitation from the Comando Supremo by anyone who from the perspective of Italy may se... ...tain surfaces are extraordinarily vari- ous and subtle. You may understand Picardy on a map, but mountain warfare is three-dimensional. A struggle may... ... those great architectural wrecks that seem most to impress con- temporary writers. I have seen the injuries and ruins of the cathedrals at Arras and ... ...es that have happened to all these arms. Before this war began speculative writers had argued that infantry drill in close formation had now no fighti... ...Another is Blight the solicitor, who goes about bewailing the fact that we writers are “holding out false hopes of higher agricultural wages after the...

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...ent, at the head of French historical papers, and are the one great source from which all historians derive their insight into the closing years of th... ... was a new term, or a change in the ordinary meaning of words sprang forth from has pen. With this was joined a vigour and breadth of style, very pro-... ...and contributes toward placing their author in the foremost rank of French writers.” Louis de Rouvroy, who later became the Duc de Saint- 4 Saint-Sim... ...Saint-Simon Simon, was born in Paris, January 16, 1675. He claimed descent from Charlemagne, but the story goes that his fa- ther, as a young page of ... ...r department. Either from stupidity or malice he had left all the towns in Picardy badly supported; a circumstance the Spaniards knew well how to prof... ...ow the Spaniards to enjoy the advantages they had gained. All the towns in Picardy were soon retaken, and the King, urged on by Chavigny, determined t... ...idant. M. de Noyon had furnished on my return another subject for the song-writers, and felt it the more sensibly because everybody was diverted at hi... ...was obliged to be contented with the abbey of Baume, another good abbey in Picardy, and divers other advantages. Except when he came to the Court, whe...

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...lence, her enemies within her frontiers—all proved the great Richelieu no longer in existence. In truth, that the red simar which occupied the wonted ... ...t the red simar which occupied the wonted place was his no longer, was still more strikingly obvious from the isolation which seemed, as we have obser... ... seemed, as we have observed, more appropriate to a phantom than a living creature— from the corridors deserted by courtiers, and courts crowded with ... ...valleys; he is lord of the hill and the plain and is now carrying on a suit for his feudal rights against the Bishop of Noyon!” “Good,” said D’Artagna... ... to the right was the one he ought to take, and on that uncertain information he resumed his journey. At nine in the morning he reached Nanteuil and s... ...ch one of these two friends, for each of them almost immediately sat down by himself at an end of the tent and began to write. The letters were long—t... ... of an hour later they had joined De Winter at the Porte Saint Denis. 332 Twenty Years After Chapter 43 In Which It Is Proved That First Impulses Are...

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...ANNE WRITTEN BY HIMSELF BOOK THREE by WILLIAM MAKEPEACE THACKERAY original from the publishers Boston, Estes and Lauriat, Publishers To the Right Hono... ...now he cared for; and in this dismal frame of mind he determined to retire from the regiment, to the great delight of the captain next in rank to him,... ...er was a spy; that Atterbury was a spy; that letters were constantly going from that house to the Queen at St. Germains; on which Esmond, laughing, wo... ...hed his instructions with his young pupil. 9 Thackeray The gazetteers and writers, both of the French and English side, have given accounts sufficien... ...in command of the army, and more information on military matters than most writers, who had never seen beyond the fire of a tobacco- pipe at “Wills’s,... .... John and his party. But he disdained the abuse in which some of the Tory writers indulged; for instance, Dr. Swift, who actually chose to doubt the ... ...h regiments in the French service were all brought round about Boulogne in Picardy, to pass over if need were with the Duke of Berwick; the soldiers o...

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...ry- ing their produce to market continue the stir of carriages re- turning from theatres and balls. Near the middle of this sus- tained pause in the g... ...sar Birotteau, a perfumer established near the Place Vendome, was startled from her sleep by a frightful dream. She had seen her double. She had appea... ...nd the counter. She was asking alms of herself, and heard herself speaking from the doorway and also from her seat at the desk. She tried to grasp her... ...d then you must find some way to cook them.” The cook, a big creature from Picardy, took the best bits for herself, and only spoke to Cesar when she w... ...on horseback at full gallop up the stairway of the orangery at Versailles. Writers and artists died in the hospi- tal, as a natural consequence of the... ...ulties; but neither the conquerors, nor the actors, nor the women, nor the writers in the great drama will listen to the salutary voice. Cesar Birotte... ...arious ways. Birotteau found himself among a numerous company of deputies, writers, journalists, stock- brokers, merchants of the upper grades, agents...

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...a tall figure, thin, or perhaps wasted, like that of a man just recovering from illness, and finally, a bearing that was midway between the indolence ... ...hat he might have been taken for an Englishman on the road to his embassy. From these general signs you will readily discern a family man, harassed by... ...found it; an honest man, loving his country and serving it, not concealing from himself the obstacles in the way of those who seek to do right; pruden... ...ora, they pay no at- tention to the reptiles; happily, they abandon to the writers of comedy the shading and colorings of a Chardin des Lupeaulx. Vain... ...ard possessed no robes, only that venerable garment called in Touraine and Picardy “cottes,” elsewhere petticoats, or skirts pleated behind and on eac... ...do the work gratis for a certain number of years), various copying clerks, writers of bills and deeds, order clerks, principal clerks, sec- ond or und... ..., Bievre, Fontenay-aux-Roses, and Aulnay, so famous as the resort of great writers, and hoped in time to know the whole western side of the country ar...

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...ttending me with a bag of money, and some of the chief of these merchants bowing me from their doors. Two days before, and even so late as yestermorni... ...waired my siller better-gates than that.” And he proposed I should buy winter-hosen from a wife in the Cowgate-back, that was a cousin of his own, and... ... house and person in the city, had grown to form a brotherhood of spies; and I knew from tales of Mr. Campbell’s how they communicated one with an- ot... ...aw at the doorsteps talked in a strange tongue; and I found out later that this was Picardy, a village where the French weavers wrought for the Linen ... ...whiteness of the path guided us into the sleeping town of Broughton, thence through Picardy, and beside my old acquaintance the gibbet of the two thie... ...d Miller. “A revolution, if you like, and I think I can promise you that historical writers shall date from Mr. Balfour’s cause. But properly guided, ... ...o this cause of Mr. Balfour’s, as you call it. Sheriff Miller tells us his- torical writers are to date from it, and I would not wonder. It is only my...

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...owing this trilogy Lucien’s story is continued in yet another book, Scenes from a Courtesan’s Life. A DISTINGUISHED PROVINCIAL AT PARIS PART I MME. DE... ...o discern the meaning of certain smiles which flit- ted over Louise’s lips from time to time; and instead of keep- ing himself to himself, he indulged... ...mself to himself, he indulged in the playfulness of the young rat emerging from his hole for the first time. The travelers were set down before daybre... ... as that nowadays. Mortifications and want only fall to the lot of unknown writers; as soon as a man’s name is known, he grows rich, and I will be ric... ... finally, paint Charles IX. for us as he really was, and not as Protestant writers have made him. Ten years of persistent work, and fame and for- tune... ...His friends were learned naturalists, young doctors of medicine, political writers and artists, a number of ear- nest students full of promise. D’Arth... ...represented in the broth- erhood. Daniel d’Arthez came of a good family in Picardy. His belief in the Monarchy was quite as strong as Michel Chrestien...

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...ng on a stile between two threadbare looking fields, and suffering acutely from indigestion. He suffered from indigestion now nearly every afternoon i... ...r quarter of his face, and he spoke with a wrathful eye regarding his wife from under the brim. In a voice thick with fury he said: “I s’pose you’d li... ...d not seem to her to justify his ingratitude. There had been the cold pork from Sunday and some nice cold potatoes, and Rashdall’s Mixed Pickles, of w... ...hat shine 18 The History of Mr. Polly so steadfastly throughout the year. Picardy is pink and white and pleasant in the blossom time, Burgundy goes o... ...ul and support and respect (I suppose) a perfect horde of pro- fessors and writers and artists and ill-groomed difficult people, instead of using our ...

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...sight the lead- ing characters of a class too long unheeded by the pens of writers who seek novelty as their chief object. Perhaps this forgetfulness ... ...n the midst of the present demo- cratic ferment, into which so many of our writers blindly rush, it becomes an urgent duty to exhibit the peasant who ... ... was, as you and other friends can well imagine, because my courage shrank from the many difficulties, the many essential details of a drama so doubly... ...dets of the year 1923; you shall estimate the distance at which we now are from the days when the Florines of the eighteenth century found, on awaking... ...ing, let your mind travel, as you lie in bed, fifty leagues or thereabouts from Paris, along the great mail road which leads to the con- fines of Burg... ...f battles should be something more than the dry particulars of tech- nical writers, who for the last three thousand years have told us about left and ... ...e favored the spoliation of the heirs, unless any of the eleven farmers of Picardy should take it into their heads to think they were cheated, and inq...

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... SHOULD NOT EASILY CHANGE A LAW RECEIVED 153 CHAPTER XXIII V ARIOUS EVENTS FROM THE SAME COUNSEL ........................................................ ...d, as Hallam observes, the Frenchman’s literary importance largely results from the share which his mind had in influencing other minds, coeval and su... ..., the leader of a new school in letters and morals. His book was different from all others which were at that date in the world. It diverted the ancie... ...go, both in politics and in morals. On the other hand, Malebranche and the writers of Port Royal were against him; some reprehended the licen- tiousne... ...the public opin- ion condemns them; that the poets, and all other sorts of writers, relate horrible stories of them; a recipe, by virtue of which the ... ...o weak and so forlorn, so heavy and so flat, in comparison of those better writers, I at once pity or despise myself. Yet do I please myself with this... ...ous assembly of the Estates at Blois, I had a little before seen a maid in Picardy, who to manifest the ardour of her prom- ises, as also her constanc...

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...that we had ships ready for launching, and certain regiments com- ing home from India; hedges we had, and a spirited body of yeomanry; and we had pluc... ...eaves word for you, sir, on your peril to denounce him on another occasion from the magis- terial Bench, for that albeit he is a gentleman of the road... ...succeeds legitimately to that bold Good Robin Hood who fed the poor.—Fresh from this polite encounter, the squire vows money for his per- sonal protec... ...ood masters blithely followed to the wars. Sing an old battle of Normandy, Picardy, Gascony, and you cel- ebrate deeds of theirs. At home they were ve... ...by the education of the world. Who cannot talk!— but who can? Discover the writers in a day when all are writ- ing! It is as rare an art as poetry, an... ...he works of your illustrious father,’ was written on the title-page. These writers deal queerly with their words of praise of one an- other. There is ...

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...aching comedy of expectant youth. It is Carol Milford, fleeing for an hour from Blodgett College. The days of pioneering, of lassies in sunbonnets, an... ...onsin, the Dakotas send their children thither, and Blodgett protects them from the wickedness of the universities. But it secretes friendly girls, yo... ...- ness of her body when they saw her in sheer negligee, or darting out wet from a shower-bath. She seemed then but half as large as they had supposed;... ..., Lamb, De Quincey, and Mrs. Humphry Ward, who, it seemed, constituted the writers of English Fiction and Es- says. Not till she inspected the rest-ro... ...’t know your office was up here.” “Yes, office, town-house, and chateau in Picardy. But you can’t see the chateau and town-house (next to the Duke of ... ... I guess the feminine mind is too innocent to understand all these immoral writers. I’m sure I don’t want to criticize Bernard Shaw; I understand he i...

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...e of speech, I have presumed to deliver these things in the Latin tongue, not trusting to my own learning, which is little or none at all, but partly from traditions of our ancestors, partly from writings and monuments of the ancient inhabitants of Britain, partly from the annals of the Romans, and the chronicles of the sacred fathers, Isidore, Hieronymus, Prosper, Eusebiu...

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...ot trusting to my own learning, which is little or none at all, but partly from traditions of our ancestors, partly from writings and monuments of the... ...rom writings and monuments of the ancient inhabit- ants of Britain, partly from the annals of the Romans, and the chronicles of the sacred fathers, Is... ...icles of the sacred fathers, Isidore, Hieronymus, Pros- per, Eusebius, and from the histories of the Scots and Saxons, although our enemies, not follo... ...n language, extended from the great St. Bernard in Piedmont to Cantavic in Picardy, and from Picardy to the western coast of France. 16 History of th... ...walla); Nennius, Catgublaun; the Saxon Chronicle, Ceadwalla; and the Welsh writers, Cadwallon and Kalwallawn: and though the identity of the person ma...

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...Excerpt: Preface By Way Of Criticism. These studies are collected from the monthly press. One appeared in the New Quarterly, one in MacMillan?s, and the rest in the Cornhill Magazine. To the Cornhill I owe a double debt of thanks; first, that I was received there in the very best society, a...

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...t Louis Stevenson PREFACE BY WAY OF CRITICISM. These studies are collected from the monthly press. One appeared in the New Quarterly, one in MacMillan... ...iderable an amount of copy. These nine worthies have been brought together from many different ages and countries. Not the most erudite of men could b... ... strain of thought in Scotland, – a country far more essentially different from England than many parts of America; for, in a sense, the first of thes... ...; it will take longer to appreciate the moral bias of Carlyle. So with all writers who insist on forc- ing some significance from all that comes befor... ...- ciple of growth that carried his first book beyond the books of previous writers, carries his last book beyond his first. And just as the most imbec... ...sed on professional inferiority in the matter of picklocks. Dom Nicolas, a Picardy monk, was the fifth and last at table. When supper had been despatc... ...ut one of the party (I have a humorous sus- picion it was Dom Nicolas, the Picardy monk) hurried them away. It was ten o’clock when they mounted the l... ... of them are drawing-room exercises and the rest seem made by habit. Great writers are struck with something in nature or society, with which they bec...

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..................................................................77 A LETTER FROM “JEAMES, OF BUCKLEY SQUARE.” ............................................ ...ss One, and the Poet Priest who ministers at thy Shrine draws his auguries from the bleeding hearts of men! While Love hath no end, Can the Bard ever ... ...the gilded equipage of the Millionary; the humbler, but yet larger vehicle from the green metropolitan suburbs (the Hang- ing Gardens of our Babylon),... ... champed grass on the green pas- tures of Aquitaine. Thence through Berry, Picardy, and the Limousin, halting at many a city and commune, holding jous... ...e anecdote is trivial, but it shows the power of Julia Jowler over me. The writers of marine novels have so exhausted the subject of storms, shipwreck...

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...e of any rank, character, or nation; and in this way he diverted attention from the Prince, and sometimes gained admission for the pair into strange s... ... me,” said the Prince, “and I have all the will in the world to rescue you from this dilemma, but upon one condition. If my friend and I eat your cake... ...d them with a bow apiece. For some sec- onds he stood looking at the purse from which he had just paid his assistants, then, with a laugh, he tossed i... ...is purpose. “These old gentlemen,” thought he, “are no doubt very valuable writers, but they seem to me conspicuously ig- norant of life. Here am I, w... ...11 New Arabian Nights One day he received a note from a well-known firm of Writers to the Signet, requesting the favour of an immedi- ate interview wi... ...ruddy glow from the arched chimney. Before this straddled Dom Nicolas, the Picardy monk, with his skirts picked up and his fat legs bared to the comfo... ...t was an eerie, uncomfort- able talent of the poet’s, much detested by the Picardy monk. “Can’t you hear it rattle in the gibbet?” said Villon. “They ... ...ow many angels, do you fancy, can be spared to carry up a single monk from Picardy? Or do you think yourself an- other Elias – and they’ll send the co...

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...is XIV. to give supremacy to the title of duke, have pre- vented Frenchmen from claiming the appellation of “high- ness” for the few princes who exist... ...her in that humble little abode in the rue de Miromesnil, a few steps away from her splendid mansion, which no amount of fortune had en- abled her to ... ...! One must be a queen to know how to abdicate, and to descend with dignity from a lofty position which is never wholly lost. Those only who have an in... ...ay 18 The Secrets of the Princesse de Cadignan that ancient escutcheon of Picardy on the panels of a carriage? You have thirty thousand francs a year... ...houghts as if she were speaking to herself:— “But I will say no more. Y ou writers have ended by making ridiculous all women who think they are misund... ...les merely re- peated at night that which she read in the morning (as some writers do), regarded her as a most superior woman. These conversations, ho... ...ers of its elegance, the embroidery of its gossip, the wit of its lies. We writers invent no more than the truth. Poor Diane! Michel had penetrated th...

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...ERCIAL OR MERCANTILE SYSTEM 342 CHAPTER II OF RESTRAINTS UPON IMPORTATION FROM FOREIGN COUNTRIES OF SUCH GOODS AS CAN BE PRODUCED AT HOME .............. ...XTRAORDINARY RESTRAINTS UPON THE IMPORTATION OF GOODS OF ALMOST ALL KINDS, FROM THOSE COUNTRIES WITH WHICH THE BALANCE IS SUPPOSED TO BE DISADVANTAGEO... ...mmediate produce of that labour, or in what is purchased with that produce from other nations. According, therefore, as this produce, or what is purch... ...n, and have been more frequently taken notice of by histori- ans and other writers. We must generally, therefore, content our- selves with them, not a... ...mpence, however, seems to have been considered as the whole of it, by many writers who have collected the prices of labour and provisions in ancient t... ...requently at this day a matter of controversy in the wine countries. Their writers on agriculture, indeed, the lovers and pro- moters of high cultivat... ...ed the provinces of the five great farms, and under which are comprehended Picardy, Normandy, and the greater part of the interior provinces of the ki...

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...ESTY QUEEN ANNE WRITTEN BY HIMSELF by WILLIAM MAKEPEACE THACKERAY original from the publishers Boston, Estes and Lauriat, Publishers To the Right Hono... ...ll the produce that, for long after the Restora- tion, our family received from their Virginian estates. My dear and honored father, Colonel Henry Esm... ...d here in our Republic, or at home in the always beloved mother coun- try, from which our late quarrel hath separated us, may surely be proud to be de... ... said the lawyer. And Harry began to translate:— “Hath not one of your own writers said, ‘The children of Adam are now laboring as much as he himself ... ...er orthodox father would never 94 Henry Esmond have allowed; his favorite writers appealing more to reason and antiquity than to the passions or imag... ...ot with us. A division under Webb and Rantzau was detached into Artois and Picardy upon the most painful and odious service that Mr. Esmond ever saw i... ...ather had pushed his instructions with his young pupil. The gazetteers and writers, both of the French and English side, have given accounts sufficien... ...h regiments in the French service were all brought round about Boulogne in Picardy, to pass over if need were with the Duke of Berwick; the soldiers o...

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...ony Motteux The text of the first Two Books of Rabelais has been reprinted from the first edition (1653) of Urquhart’s translation. Foot- notes initia... ...on (1653) of Urquhart’s translation. Foot- notes initialled ‘M.’ are drawn from the Maitland Club edition (1838); other footnotes are by the translato... ...(as the footnotes indicate) passages omitted by Motteux have been restored from the 1738 copy edited by Ozell. 4 Gargantua & Pantagruel Introduction ... ...uct and vice, or is he ever the apologist of these? Many poets and romance writers, under cover of a fastidious style, without one coarse expression, ... ...g fashion. The Pleiad School he evidently knew nothing of, but kept to the writers of the fifteenth and the first half of the sixteenth century. Thus ... ... Aristophanes and of Lucian, his intimate acquaintance with nearly all the writers of antiquity, Greek as well as Latin, with whom Rabelais is more pe... ...fts, their somersaults and smooth tongue, especially of those of Chauny in Picardy, who are naturally great praters, and brave givers of fibs, in matt... ... hundred comely, pretty, handsome, lovely and well-complexioned wenches of Picardy, all which he caused to be well enter- tained and highly fed for th...