Vintage engraving of a scene from Francois Rabelais's Gargantua and Pantagruel, by Jules Ulric Gallet was sent unto Picrochole. Book 1 Chapter XXX. The next morning he went with a trumpeter to the gate of the castle, and required the guards he might be admitted to speak with the king of somewhat that concerned him.

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