Tuesday, August 26, 2025
Bedtime Reading
Donald M. Frame (1911-1991), François Rabelais: A Study (New York: Harcourt Brace Jovanovich, 1977), p. 177, with note on p. 214 (on Gustave Flaubert):
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As late as 1868 he says he never goes to sleep without having read a chapter of "the sacrosanct, immense, and superlatively beautiful Rabelais."41Boulenger = Jacques Boulenger, Rabelais à travers les âges (Paris: Le Divan, 1925), p. 159:
41. Quoted by Boulenger, p. 159; cf. pp. 156-58.
En 1868, il déclare qu'il ne s'endort chaque soir qu' «après avoir lu un chapitre du sacrosaint, immense et extra-beau Rabelais».Apparently 1867, not 1868, in a letter of Flaubert to Ernest Feydeau (December 25, 1867).
