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At the time there was a claustral monk named Frere Jean of the Hashes, who was young, gallant, joyful, good natured, dextrous, bold, adventurous, thoughtful, tall, thin, with a capacious mouth, gifted in the nose, a great dispatcher of hours, quite an accomplisher of masses, a quick doer-in of vigils,—to put it in a nutshell, a true monk if ever there’s been one since this monk of a world first monked out a monk; moreover, a cleric to his very teeth in matters of the breviary. - François Rabelais
Attribution: François Rabelais (1494–1553), French author, evangelist. Ch. 27, p. 78, Pleiade edition (1995).

Categories: Author, Evangelist, Monks, Religion

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