Panurge
Sign in to savethumb|Panurge captured by the Turcs. (etching by Gustave Doré) Panurge (from , used to mean "knave, rogue") is one of the principal characters in Gargantua and Pantagruel, a series of five novels by François Rabelais. Especially important in the third and fourth books, he is an exceedingly crafty knave, libertine, and coward.
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thumb|Panurge captured by the Turcs. (etching by Gustave Doré) Panurge (from , used to mean "knave, rogue") is one of the principal characters in Gargantua and Pantagruel, a series of five novels by François Rabelais. Especially important in the third and fourth books, he is an exceedingly crafty knave, libertine, and coward.
In Chapter 9 of the second book, he shows that he can speak many languages (German, Italian, Scottish, Dutch, Spanish, Danish, Hebrew, Greek, Latin and French), including some of the first examples of a constructed language.