gassendiste

Updated: June 2, 2025

One should look twice before setting aside an article of common faith. Only a perfectly honest soul has such scruples. At heart my father was a Gassendiste.* He keyed his own particular sentiment with the public sentiment, believing, like the countryside, in the existence of Putois, but not admitting his direct responsibility for the theft of the melons and the betrayal of the cook.

Anatole France - Putois: 1907