Who is Le Bourgeois Gentilhomme?
Le Bourgeois Gentilhomme’s name is Monsieur Jourdain, a well-to-do tradesman in the play written by Moliere in 1670.
Le Bourgeois Gentilhomme’s name is Monsieur Jourdain, a well-to-do tradesman in the play written by Moliere in 1670.
It was not Mark Twain who said the phrase. The quote first appeared in an editorial in the Hartford Courant of August 24, 1897, probably written by associate editor Charles Dudley Warner. Warner had collaborated with Twain on The Gilded Age (1873).
The A.A. in A. A. Milne stands for Alan Alexander. Milne is best known as the author of Winnie-the-Pooh (1926) and The House at Pooh Corner (1928).
Jack was the sadistic leader of the hunters in William Golding’s Lord of the Flies. Who is the overweight bespectacled boy? Piggy.
Bloomsday, the date on which James Joyce’s Ulysses (1922) is set, is June 16, 1904.
Thomas Hughes, English jurist wrote Tom Brown’s School Days. The book for boys tells of young Tom Brown’s adventures at Rugby. Hughes also wrote a sequel, Tom Brown at Oxford (1861).
In Rabelais’s French satire Gargantua and Pantagruel (1533), Gargantua is Pantagruel’s father. Both are giants who go on humorous adventures.