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_cochonnerie_ of the lower kind, relieved partially by a libellous but impossible story about our Edward the _Fifth_ and the poet Villon again, as well as by the appearance of an interesting but not previously mentioned member of the crew of the _Thalamége_ (Pantagruel's flagship), the great cat Rodilardus.
A History of the French Novel, Vol. 1 From the Beginning to 1800 George Saintsbury 1889
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Tout cela c’est de la cochonnerie .... 4 Do you know what I like?
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a "veritable cochonnerie litteraire," while "Jean-Louis" has "several rather funny jokes, and some not bad attempts at character, but a detestable plot."
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