Ribald Classic: The Lady's Tale
March, 1967
Some 50 years after our dear master Rabelais passed from this earth, there lived in his town of Chinon the lady Diane de Montrouge, who had a secret that would have charmed him.Traveler, do you know Chinon? It is a pretty town in the province of Touraine and it lies on the river Vienne. Atop its hill rears the great castle of Henry II, where Joan the Maid, of blessed memory, first met the ugly Dauphin Charles and exposed his trick. Exactly beneath the hill runs a narrow cobbled street of shops a...
