Rabelais, as it appears, had a special aversion for Montaigu College.

'Tempeste,' says he, 'was a great boy-flogger at Montaigu College.

If for flogging poor little children, unoffending school-boys, pedagogues are damned, he, upon my word of honor, is now on Ixion's wheel, flogging the dock-tailed cur that turns it.' Pantagruel's education was now humane and gentle.

Accordingly he soon took pleasure in the work which Ponocrates was at the pains of rendering interesting to him by the very nature and the variety of the subjects of it.

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