Sunday, December 04, 2022
An Excellent Practice
Lucien Febvre (1878-1956), The Problem of Unbelief in the Sixteenth Century: The Religion of Rabelais, tr. Beatrice Gottlieb (Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 1982), pp. 174-175 (on Gargantua's letter to Pantagruel; footnote omitted):
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To do this, let us begin by translating it. It is in French, of course, magnificent French. Let us put it into words that are much less beautiful but more immediately accessible to our minds. An excellent practice, by the way; one should never omit availing oneself of it every time it is a matter of interpreting an old document whose message is hard to grasp.
