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Excerpt from Autour de Rabelais: Les Ancêtres de Pantagruel Et le Développement de la Bourgeoisie au Xvie Siècle
Ces heureux, ne seraient - ce point ces gentilshommes nou veau jeu et ces riches bourgeois terriens, que nous trouvons dès 1480 amoureusement installés sur leurs fermes, soucieux d'ordre et de paix, escomptant les bonnes récoltes, et groupant volontiers des amis nombreux autour de leurs tables, où sont plantureusement servis les viandes de leurs métairies, et les vins de leurs vignes?
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