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
Gil Blas, discouraged, was about to leave Dr. Sangrado’s service, when that distinguished physician said to him—we take up the text of the story once more:
From French Classics by Wilkinson, William Cleaver
Sangrado, san-gr�′do, n. one who lets blood—from the leech in Gil Blas.
From Chambers's Twentieth Century Dictionary (part 4 of 4: S-Z and supplements) by Various
The first, and on the whole, the most considerable name of the century in fiction is that of the author of Gil Blas.
From A Short History of French Literature by Saintsbury, George
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