Panurge (from Greek: πανοῦργος / panoûrgos meaning "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.[1]
Panurge captured by the Turcs. (etching by Gustave Doré)
In French, reference to Panurge occurs in the phrase mouton de Panurge [fr], which describes an individual who will blindly follow others regardless of the consequences. This, after a story in which Panurge buys a sheep from the merchant Dindenault and then, as a revenge for being overcharged, throws the sheep into the sea. The rest of the sheep in the herd follow the first over the side of the boat, in spite of the best efforts of the shepherd.
Suddenly, I do not know how, it happened, I did not have time to think, Panurge, without another word, threw his sheep, crying and bleating, into the sea. All the other sheep, crying and bleating in the same intonation, started to throw themselves in the sea after it, all in a line. The herd was such that once one jumped, so jumped its companions. It was not possible to stop them, as you know, with sheep, it's natural to always follow the first one, wherever it may go.
Les Moutons de Panurge is a piece by composer Frederic Rzewski (1969).
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^ One or more of the preceding sentences incorporates text from a publication now in the public domain: Wood, James, ed. (1907). "Panurge". The Nuttall Encyclopædia. London and New York: Frederick Warne.
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