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Notes

Comment Pantagruel de sa langue couvrit toute une armée, & de ce que l’auteur veit dedans sa bouche.

Veu que nul n’avoit encores escript de ce pays là où il y a plus de xxv. royaulmes habitez, sans les devers, & ung gros bras de mer: mais ien ay composé ung grand livre intitulé l’Histoire de Guorgias: car ainsi les ay ie nommez par ce qu’ilz demouroient en la gorge de mon maistre Pantagruel. Finablement ie m’en vouluz retourner & passant par la barbe me gettay sus ses espaules, & de là me devalle en terre & tumbe devant luy. Et quand il me apperceut, il me demanda.
Dont viens tu Alcofrybas?
Et ie luy responds, de vostre guorge monsieur.
Et despuis quand y es tu? dist il.
Despuis (dis ie) que vous alliez contre les Almyrodes.
Il y a (dist il) plus de six moys. Et de quoy vivoys tu? que mangeoys tu? que beuvoys tu?
Ie responds. Seigneur de mesmes vous, & des plus fryans morceaux qui passoient par vostre guorge ie prenoys le barraige.
Voire mais (dist il) où chyois tu?
En vostre guorge monsieur, dys ie.
Ha ha tu es gentil compaignon, dist il. Nous avons avecques l’ayde de dieu conquesté tout le pays des Dipsodes ie te donne la chastellenie de Salmigondin.
Grant mercy (dys ie) monsieur [vous me faictes du bien plus que n’ay desservy envers vous].

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Comment Panurge fut faict chastellain de Salmiguondin en Dipsodie, & mangea son bled en herbe.

Donnant Pantagruel ordre au gouvernement de toute Dipsodie, assigna la chastellenie de Salmiguondin à Panurge, valent par chascun an 6789106789. Royaulx en deniers certains, non comprins l’incertain revenu des Hanetons, & Cacquerolles, montant bon an mal an de 2345768. à 2435769. moutons à la grande laine. Quelques foys revenoit à 1234554321. Seraphz: quand estoit bonne année de Cacquerolles, & Hanetons de requeste. Mais ce n’estoit tous les ans. Et se gouverna si bien & prudentement monsieur le nouveau chastellain, qu’en moins de quatorze iours il dilapida le revenu certain & incertain de sa Chastellenie pour troys ans. Non proprement dilapida, comme vous pourriez dire en fondations de monastères, erections de temples, bastimens de collieges & hospitaulx, ou iectant son lard aux chiens. Mais despendit en mille petitz banquetz & festins ioyeulx, ouvers à tous venens, mesmement bons compaignons, ieunes fillettes, & mignonnes gualoises. Abastant boys, bruslant les grosses souches pour la vente des cendres, prenent argent d’avance, achaptant cher, vendent à bon marché, & mangeant son bled en herbe. Pantagruel adverty de l’affaire, n’en feut en soy aulcunement indigné, fasché, ne marry. Ie vous ay ià dict, et encores rediz, que c’esttoit le meilleur petit & grand bon hommet, que oncques ceignit espée. Toutes choses prenoit en bonne partie, tout acte interpretoit à bien. Iamais ne se tourmentoit, iamais ne se scandalizoit. Aussi eust il esté bien forissu du Deificque manoir de raison, si aultrement se feust contristé ou alteré. Car tous les biens que le Ciel couvre: & que la Terre contient en toutes ses dimensions: hauteur, profondité, longitude, & latitude, ne sont dignes d’esmouvoir nos affections, & troubler nos sens & espritz.

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fief

Fief, ou chose tenuë noblement. Praedium beneficiarium, Clientelaris res, Fundus clientelaris, Praedium clientelare. Bud. Il vient de ce mot Feld, Allemant, qui signifie champ, et non pas de cestuy Latin, Fides, ou Fidelitas, voyez Ban.

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arriere-fief

Praedium subclientelare.

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chastellenie

Chastellenie : A Castle-wick, or Castleship; the Tenure or Honour of a Castleship ; the Estate, Jurisdiction, or Dignity of a Lord Castellain; a kind of Seigniory that’s held of some other than the King, or not directly of the Crown, and hath all (subaltern) Jurisdiction annexed unto it.

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Salmigondin

A Hachee; or meat made ordinarily of cold flesh, cut in little peeces, and stewed or boyled on a chafingdish, with crummes of bread, wine, ver-juyce, vinegar, sliced Nutmeg, and Orange pills

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arriere-fief

arriere-fief: m. A mesne fief; a fief that is held of, or depends on another, or higher fief.

Fief: m. A Fief. A (Knights) fee, a Mannor, or inheritance held by homage, and fealty; and given at the first, in trust, and upon promise of assistance, or service in the wars : (A learned Frenchman defines it, L’heritage tenu à foy & hommage, baillé à aucun pour la fiance qu’on a eue en luy; Another, La terre concedée à cause de confiance, ou foy promise par le preneur d’icelle, d’assister son Seigneur en guerre: which both together make good my definition ; ) Also, a Tenure, or Estate in fief, or in fee. This word was first heard of, after the conquest of Gallia by the Francs (or ancient French-men) when their Soveraign Princes, reserving some land for their own Domains, distributed the rest (by whole Countreys, or large territories) among their Captains, and principal followers, on condition, that they should hold of them, and aid them in their wars; in which distribution respect was also had of, and provision made for, the inferior French Souldiers (whereof the more, or fewer those Captains had under them, the greater, or less were their portions) whereupon the Captains, having (as formerly their Princes) reserved somewhat for their particular demains, they divided the best part of the rest among them, to be held of themselves by the same Tenure, on on the same condition, that they held the whole of the King: (Hence came the Arriere fiefs:) the other part they shared among the natural inhabitants of the country, on much baser conditions/ In those times all Fiefs were determined by the death of the Feoffces (?) and revokable at the will of the Feoffer, but not long after they became (as the most of the are now) patrimonial, or hereditary.

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arrière-fief

Fief mouvant d’un autre Fief. Une terre qui a plusieurs arrière-Fiefs.

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salmigondis

ragoût de plusieurs viandes réchauffées ensemble: Offrirent a leur Dieu… chous cabuts… salmiguondins (Rabelais Quart liv. LIX ed. 1552)
Hachis, vinaigrettes, saupiquets, salmingondins, etc. (H. Est., Apol. p. Herod., p. 431, ed. 1566)

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castellany

[from med Latin, castellainia, castle] The office or jurisdiction of a castellan; the lordship of a castle, or the district belonging to a castle. First example from 1357.

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mesne

[altered spelling of AF meen, mean] Feudalism. Mesne lord. A lord who holds an estate of a superior lord.

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salmagundi

salmagundi. Forms: 7-8 salmagondi, 8 salamongundy, (sallad-magundy, Solomon Gundy, salmi-, salmogundy, salmagunda), 8-9 salmagundy, 7- salmagundi. [adopted from French salmigondis (in the 16th c. salmiguondin, salmingondin), of obscure origin.]

Cookery. A dish composed of chopped meat, anchovies, eggs, onions with oil and condiments.

2 transferred sense and fig.

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Salmiguondin

Salmigondin: Name of the Castellany (the extent of land and jurisdiction appertaining to a castle) that is given first to Alcofrybas and, after the anagramatic narrator’s disappearance, to Panurge (Third Book, Chapter 2), which has generally been interpreted as an oversight by Rabelais. Considering that “salmigondis” is a type of ragout, a hotchpotch of leftover meats, one could also see a design behind the property’s reassignment.

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Salmiguondin

Le premier chapitre du Tiers Livre et le début du deuxième poursuivent et achèvent le récit de la campagne victorieuse de Pantagruel, roi d’Utopie, contre les Dipsodes. Si la continuité narrative est ainsi assurée, ce n’est pas sans quelques menus changements. Je passe sur les considérations nouvelles relatives à la guerre et à la conquête pour noter surtout que la châtellenie de Salmigondin, d’abord dévolue dans Pantagruel à Alcofrybas, est désormais assignée à Panurge.

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Castellan

A castellan was the governor or caretaker of a castle or keep. Usually, a castellan combined the duties of both a majordomo (responsible for a castle’s domestic staff) and a military administrator (responsible for maintaining defenses and protecting the castle’s lands). This was particularly the case if there was no lord resident at the castle, or if the resident lord was frequently absent. In France, castellans (known in French as Châtelains) who governed castles without resident nobles acquired considerable powers, and the position actually became a hereditary fiefdom.

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