“Panurge had no sooner heard this, but he was upon the high-rope.”

— Francois Rabelais, book Gargantua and Pantagruel

Source: Gargantua and Pantagruel (1532–1564), Fifth Book (1564), Chapter 18.

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major French Renaissance writer 1494–1553

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