Jean de la Fontaine:
La Cigale, ayant chanté
Tout l’été,
Se trouva fort dépourvue
Quand la bise fut venue :
Pas un seul petit morceau
De mouche ou de vermisseau.
Google Books – Cotrgave’s French and English Dictionary:
arriere-fief: m. A mesne fief; a fief that is held of, or depends on another, or higher fief.
soubs-fiefver: C’est bailler en arriere-fief partie de son fief. Ragueau.
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’heritahge 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 the,, 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 (expressed in the word Cens :) 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.
Google Books – Cotgrave French and English Dictionary: Chastellenie : f. 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.
Re: chastellenie
Gallica — Title : [Illustrations du Tiers livre des faictz et dictz héroïques du noble
Pantagruel.] / François Rabelais, aut. du texte
Publisher : Claude La Ville (Valence – Lyon)
Date of publication : 1547-1548
The bust of Mithridates as Hercules is in the Louvre (Paris).
Encyclopaedia Romana: Compendium of quotes on Mithridates and his antidote to poison (thereiac): from Justin, Epitome (XXXVII.2); Celsus, De Medicina (V.23.3); Cassius Dio (XXXVII.13); Pliny (XXIX.24-25); and A. E. Houseman, “Terence, This is Stupid Stuff.”
NRB 94: Almanach pour l’an 1553, calculé sur le Meridional de la noble Cité de Lyon, et sur le climat de royaume de France. Composé par moy François Rabelais, Docteur en Medecine, et Professeur en astrologie.
“Despite the fragmentary nature of what survives, there is no doubt as to the authenticity of the two almanacs which he [Antoine Le Roy,Rabelaesina Elogia, Bibliothèque Nationale, MS lat., no 8704] quotesl in particular, regarding this edition, the extracts given describe the state of the sky as it was for the years to which they apply: for instance the conjunctions of the moon and the planets.
“While Rabelais did not sign the first two books of his giant story, he was legally obliged to state his responsibility for his Almanachs.
“It is not known whether Rabelais was indeed ‘professeur en astrologie,’ although his astrological knowledge was evidently highly regarded, for instance, in a poem of Salmon Macrin cited by Marcel de Grève, L’Interprétation de Rabelais au XVIe siècle, ER, 3, 1961.”
— A New Rabelais Bibliography, Stephen Rawles and M.A. Screech, Librarie Droz, 1987. p. 499
Rabelaisian Dialectic and the Platonic-Hermetic Tradition, George Mallary Masters
Seeds of virtue and knowledge by Maryanne Cline Horowitz
Google Books:
A New Rabelais Bibliography: Editions of Rabelais Before 1626 (Etudes Rabelaisiennes Tome XX)
Rawles, Stephen and Screech, M.A. et al
Bookseller: BWB Antiquarian, Rare, and Collectable (Mishawaka, IN, U.S.A.)
Price: US$ 156.60, Quantity Available:: 1
Book Description: Librairie Droz. Book Condition: Used – Good. Sm 4to. Cloth Hardcover, 1987. . The usual ex-library treatments are present. xvi + 696pp. Text is in French. Bound in red cloth with gold lettering on the side. Corners very gently bumped; cover in overall good condition. The joints and hinges are strong, and the textblock is sturdy. Pages are clean and intact, with facsimile figures throughout, as well as a frontispiece. Offered by the Antiquarian, Rare, and Collectable Books section at Better World Books.
Google Books: By Edwin M. Duval, 1997
Publisher: Droz, (Travaux d’humanisme et Renaissance)
Pub. Date: January 1997
ISBN-13: 9782600002288
Fragments from a search for pantagruelion:
210: Increasingly thoughout the Pantagruelion chapters he hints that the “mot de l’enigme” is itself an enigma to be deciphered, that “flax-hemp” is merely a …
211. But the polyvalence and indeterminacy of Pantagruelion are not ends in themselves. Like all hermeneutic aporias in the Tiers Livre…
218. His ill-concieved, anticlamctic excursus on Pantagruelion is more futile tub-rolling by the same author who has already confessed his imperfections and …
212. On this level the only entirely correct interpretation of the Pantagruelion enigma is the one Pantagruel himself offered in the corresponding episode of …
219. It is highly significant that as he progresses through the Pantagruelion chapters “M. Fran. Rabelais docteur en Medicine” sounds more and more line “feu…
130. The ecstasies of the praise of Pantagruelion, no less than those of the praise of debts, are a deceptive and self-deluding error.
209. The Tiers Livre ends — appropriately for a book about interpretation — with an interpretive crux, the enigma of Pantagruelion. On one level this enigma is a …
213. In one of the most compelling readings of these final chapters to date David Quint has linked Pantagruelion to tnterpretation in …
Montaigne, Essays, 40: ” And when you ask Thales why he does not marry, he tells you, because he has no mind to leave any posterity behind him.”