Tuesday, July 22, 2025
A Dedicated Tutor
François Rabelais (1494-1553), Gargantua and Pantagruel I.23 (he = Gargantua, his tutor = Ponocrates; tr. J.M. Cohen):
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Then he went into some private place to make excretion of his natural waste-products, and there his tutor repeated what had been read, explaining to him the more obscure and difficult points.
Puis il allait aux lieux secrets excréter le produit des digestions naturelles. Là, son précepteur répétait ce qu'on avait lu et lui expliquait les passages les plus obscurs et les plus difficiles.
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