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A Journey Into Rabelais's France
Author: Albert Jay Nock

JOURNEY INTO 1 ABELATSS FRANCE BY ALBERT JAY NOCK ILLUSTRATED IN PEN-AND-INK BY RUTH ROBINSON WILLIAM MORROW AND COMPANY NEW YORK MCMXXXIV INTO 8ELAISS FRANCE COPYRIGHT - 1934 BY ALBERT JAY NOCK Au rignts reserved. This book, or parts thereof, may not be reproduced in any form without permission o the publisher. PRINTED W THK U, S. A, BY OU1NN 8... more »00EN COMPANY, INC, RAHWAY, N. J, PREFACE THIS book is the souvenir of a good time nothing but that. It is the record of many months spent in delightful loafing through the parts of France that are associated with the memory of Francis Rabelais. In the cours of a long occupation with his life and writings we had noticed that these regions seemed to be worth visiting, and we therefore decided to see them and this book is merely a memorandum of our pilgrimage. Some parts of it have already appeared in the Bookman, and they reappear here by the editors kind permission. Francis Rabelais 1495-1553 was one of the best physicians in Europe. He was head of the hospital of the Pont du Rhone at Lyon, the oldest hospital in France, and perhaps the largest. He was for twenty years the private physician and confidential friend of Cardinal Jean du Bellay and his brother Guillaume, the viceroy of Piedmont. He was in favour with the most eminent men of his time, and held a court appointment from King Francis I. All the learning of the Renaissance was fermenting in his head he anticipated Bacon in taking all knowledge as his province. Only the colossal Erasmus of Rotterdam could match his classical scholarship. In literature, he was one of the four great creative geniuses of the modern world he stands with Dante, Cervantes and Shakespeare. Finally, he did more than any one man to en rich the French language and establish it in the form in which it was bequeathed to Amyot and Montaigne. Such are the credentials of our interest in Francis Rabelais, and the justification of our reverent love for his memory. vii NINES TOULOUSE MONTPELLIER ILLUSTRATIONS Albi Map of France Boy on a bicycle see page 176 Bust o Rabelais, at Meudon Clock on the Gare dOrsay, Paris Singing Frog, at Blois Capital in the Musee Lapidaire at Tours Doorway of House attributed to Tristan 1 Hermite at Tours Louis XI, from a XV-Century statue in polychromed wood Circular stairway at Blois The Chateau o Chinon Cave-dwelling at Ste.-Radegonde, above Chinon Grotto of the Hermit of Ste.-Radegonde, above Chinon Philippe de Commines Capital, from the church of St. Leonard at Tile-Bouchard Stairway of la Deviniere Well at la Deviniere Mill at the Ford of Vede Farm-house at la Roche-Clermault Map of the Picrocholine War Tomb of Richard Cceur de Leon and Eleanore de Guyenne at Fon tevrault Kitchen at Fontevrault Post box, Hotel Ste.-Anne, Paris Post box, Hotel Ste,-Anne, Paris Escalier de la Grande Poterne, le Mans House of Adam and Eve, le Mans St. Benok Cour de lH6tel Fumee, Poitiers Louise Labe PAGE V viii ix 3 6 ii 15 19 25 37 40 45 57 60 65 75 PAGE Roman Arena at Poitiers, from an old print 131 Entrance of the former Doyenne of St.-Hilaire-le-Grand 134 View of St.-Maixent 139 Door of the Miraculous Oratory, Liguge 143 Melusines Grotto, Lusignan 147 From portal of church at Vouvant 150 XV-Century House, on the Place du Marche, St.-Maixent 153 Abbey Portal at Fontenay-le-Comte 157 Pantagruels Chain, Museum of la Rochelle 165 Fountain of Quatre-Tias, Fontenay-le-Comte 168 Ruins of the Cathedral of Maillezais 172 From the portal of the church at Maillezais 176 From the portal of the church at Maillezais 177 The Harbour of la Rochelle 180 Le Gros Horloge in 1710, from an old print 185 Preparing for the fair at Moissac 188 Church-tower at Moissac I A Flemish Delicacy Z p5 Place Nationale at Montauban 10.7 Roman Tomb, Toulouse 100 Doorway, Hotel de Roquettes, Toulouse 202 Albi 207 School of Medicine, Montpellier 215 Aiguemortes 222 Dancer, Museum of Aries 22 y Port-Cros 2 -...

ISBN-13: 9781406725926
ISBN-10: 1406725927
Publication Date: 3/15/2007
Pages: 312
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Publisher: Benson Press
Book Type: Paperback
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