Épée, aiguille, pointe: l'énigme grotesque du couturier Groignet (Quart livre LII) by Garrod, R

“…This chapter elucidates the historical anecdote underpinning the Groignet misadventure in the Papimanes episode of the Quart livre, and reads its fictional take as a historiographical grotesque elaborated by Rabelais in response to the political conception of Church history as universal imperium displayed on the walls of the Vatican stanze.…”