Mots D'Heures: Gousses, Rames - The d'Antin Manuscript - Softcover

Luis D'Antin Van Rooten

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0586217436 ISBN 13: 9780586217436

Publisher: HarperCollins / Grafton, 1993

Synopsis

A rollicking entertainment for word lovers.

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From the Back Cover

THE MOST ECCENTRIC, ENTERTAINING AND ENIGMATICALLY ESOTERIC BOOK IN THE HISTORY OF HUMOUR AND PUBLISHING!

Years of scholarly study have been spent analysing these ancient French rhymes, yet still many questions remain unanswered: Who wrote them? When? And why – upon reading aloud – do the verses take on such a strangely familiar quality?

'
Un petit d’un petit
S’étonne aux Halles
Un petit d’un petit
Ah! degrés te fallent…
'

for instance, or

'
Lit-elle messe, moffette,
Satan ne te fête,
Et digne somme coeurs et nouez.
À longue qu’ime est-ce pailles d’Eure.
Et ne Satan bise ailleurs
Et ne fredonne messe. Moffette, ah, ouais!
'

'Mots d’Heures: Gousses, Rames' has enjoyed a cult following for many years and is the ideal companion for the linguistically agile of all ages.

“Brilliantly tiresome”
OBSERVER

Edition details

• Publisher: HarperCollins / Grafton
• Publication date: 1993
• Language: French
• ISBN 10: 0586217436
• ISBN 13: 9780586217436
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 64