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Panurge

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[pan-urj, pa-nyrzh] / pænˈɜrdʒ, paˈnürʒ /

noun

  1. (in Rabelais'Pantagruel ) a rascal, the companion of Pantagruel.


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Samuel Johnson’s Rasselas Voltaire’s Candide Voltaire’s Pangloss Rabelais’s Panurge What is the name of the merchant and moneylender who leads Emma Bovary into hopelessly deep debt?

From The Guardian • Aug. 3, 2011

Panurge interprets the oracle to mean that he should take whatever cup life offers him, and drinks it down with a will.

From Time Magazine Archive

When Pantagruel goes to Paris, he meets Panurge, a gay dog who knows 63 ways to make money and 214 to spend it.

From Time Magazine Archive

At last they reach the Holy Bottle, and Panurge puts his question.

From Time Magazine Archive

Yet Rabelais came from Touraine, and if the creator of Panurge has not humour, who has?

From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 13, Slice 8 "Hudson River" to "Hurstmonceaux" by Various

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