Sheep of Panurge
See also: Sheep (homonymy)
The Expression sheep of Panurge nominates a person according to a movement or a majority without reflecting.
Origin
Panurge is a character of François Rabelais, companion of Pantagruel, the son of Gargantua.During their voyage to the “Country of the Lanterns”, Panurge was caught, at sea, of quarrel with the Dindenault merchant. To be avenged, it bought to him one of its Mouton S, which it precipitated in the sea. The example and the bleats of this one involved all its congeneric and the merchant himself, which, clinging to the last sheep, drowned.
Extracted the Quart Delivers , chapter VIII:
- ““Malfaisant, pipor, drinker”, Panurge know and intend to do everything, in particular jokes; for example it makes plunge the Mouton S of Dindenault in the sea by throwing the first there, that the others follow stupidly”.
Analyzes
The history of the sheep of Panurge is thus a denunciation of the silly thing being able to accompany the gregarism by the species.
Other directions
- the Sheep of Panurge is also the name of a song of Georges Brassens.
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With the Quebec, one also uses the expression “curly as a sheep of Panurge” to speak about a person who has the curly hair like a sheep.
See too
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