RARE RELIC PRESERVED.
Franco has just come very near to losing 0110 of Iter most precious literary relic,s —I lie house at, Sully, near Chinon, in which Francois Rabelais was born between 3.483 and 1500. It is a humble little house surrounded bv vineyards, and boars the name of La Deviniere. Once it was surrounded by a tall garden wall, but this has long since disappeared and only the house itself remains. It was about to be sold and demolished when admirers of the genial creator of Gargantua and Pantagrnel moved the Ministry of Fine Arts to take action. The result is that tho house is being classed as an historical monument, and will, therefore, have nothing to fear from (ho housebreaker's pick.
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New Zealand Herald, Volume LXVI, Issue 20384, 12 October 1929, Page 8 (Supplement)
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123RARE RELIC PRESERVED. New Zealand Herald, Volume LXVI, Issue 20384, 12 October 1929, Page 8 (Supplement)
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