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This historic book may have numerous typos, missing text or index. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. 1837. Not illustrated. Excerpt: ... THE FIRST DAY. CHAPTER I. THE SCHoLARS. Tu viens doncques de Paris? dist Pantagruel--Et a quoy passez vous le temps, vous aultres Messieurs Estudians au diet Paris?--Rabelais--Pantagruel--Liv. II., Chap. vi. Towards the close of Wednesday, the 4th of February, 1579, a vast assemblage of scholars was collected before the Gothic gateway of the ancient College of Navarre. So numerous was this concourse, that it not merely blocked up the area in front of this renowned seminary, but extended far down the Rue de la Montagne St. Genevieve, in which it is situated. Never had such a disorderly rout been brought together since the days of the emeute in 1557, when the predecessors of these turbulent students took up arms, inarched in a body to the Pre-aux-Clercs, set fire to three houses in the vicinity, and slew a sergeant of the guard, who vainly endeavoured to restrain their fury. Their last election of a rector, Messire Adrian D'Amboise, when the same body congregated within the cloisters of the Mathurins, and thence proceeded, in tumultuous array, to the Church of St. Louis, in the isle of the same name, --had been nothing to it. Every scholastic hive sent forth its drones. Sorbonne, and Montaigu, Cluni, Harcourt, the Four Nations, and a host of minor establishments--in all, amounting to forty-two--each added its swarms; and a pretty buzzing they created The fair of St. Germain had only commenced the day before; but though its festivities were to continue till Palm Sunday, and though it was the constant resort of the scholars, who committed, during their days of carnival, ten thousand excesses, --it was now absolutely deserted. The Ponime-de-Pin, the Castel, the Magdaleine, and the Mule, those tabernes mtritoires, celebrated in Pantagruel's conference with the Limosin ...
| ISBN-13 | 9781154004298 |
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| ISBN-10 | 1154004295 |
| Weight | 0.62 Pounds |
| Dimensions | 9.00 x 6.00 x 0.42 In |
| List Price | $19.99 |
| Format | Paperback |
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| Pages | 184 pages |
| Publisher | |
| Published On | 2010-03-01 |
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