Panurge
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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
At last they reach the Holy Bottle, and Panurge puts his question.
From Time Magazine Archive
Panurge has a flea in his ear who keeps suggesting that he get married.
From Time Magazine Archive
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
There is and can be only one Panurge.
From A History of the French Novel, Vol. 2 To the Close of the 19th Century by Saintsbury, George
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