Gil Blas
Americannoun
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Gil Blas, a Spaniard born without social standing, becomes caught up with grifters and is obliged to live by his wits.
From The Wall Street Journal • Feb. 9, 2026
The house next door to ours, once occupied by the writer Alain-René Lesage, who wrote Gil Blas, just sold for 40,000 euros.
From The Guardian • Oct. 23, 2019
The directly satirical intention predominates in the Diable Boiteux, the more purely narrative faculty in Gil Blas.
From A Short History of French Literature by Saintsbury, George
Gil Blas thus relates the immediate, and then the more remote, result of his submitting to the archbishop his maiden essay in copy-hand reproduction of that prelate’s pulpit rhetoric:
From French Classics by Wilkinson, William Cleaver
His vacillating ideas as to a mode of life were determined in a definite direction by the reading of Gil Blas.
From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 5, Slice 3 "Capefigue" to "Carneades" by Various
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