in a great furnace it is, like every other animal, suffocated and consumed

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But I assure you that in a great furnace it is like every other animal, suffocated and consumed.

Original French:  Mais ie vous aſceure que en grande fournaiſe elle eſt comme tout aultre animant, ſuffoquée, & conſumée.

Modern French:  Mais je vous asceure que en grande fournaise elle est comme tout aultre animant, suffoquée, & consumée.



Notes

animant

Tout autre être animé, tout autre animal.

Rabelais, François (ca. 1483–1553), Œuvres de Rabelais (Edition Variorum). Tome Cinquième. Charles Esmangart (1736–1793), editor. Paris: Chez Dalibon, 1823. p. 293. Google Books

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Posted 27 January 2013. Modified 3 July 2018.

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