Gil Blas

[ French zheel blah ]

noun

1. ( Gil Blas de Santillane ) a picaresque novel (1715–35) by Le Sage.

Example Sentences

The house next door to ours, once occupied by the writer Alain-René Lesage, who wrote Gil Blas, just sold for 40,000 euros.

From The Guardian

She was the first person to translate “Don Quixote” into Chinese, and she also translated another Spanish classic, “Gil Blas,” as well as other literary works.

From Washington Post

The resulting reader’s diary includes time with Gaston Leroux’s “The Phantom of the Opera,” the 18th-century French picaresque “Gil Blas” and Mikhail Lermontov’s “A Hero of Our Time.”

From New York Times

We observe, too, that the great comic books, such as "Gil Blas," "Don Quixote," "Pickwick," and others, are most effective when the hero is most like Bacchus, roaming over the earth with merry blades, delightfully free from the duties and conditions which make bondmen of us all.

From Project Gutenberg

Hence, in the country of Cervantes, in the native land of Gil Blas and Figaro, there is now little manifestation of their comic fertility and gayety of mind.

From Project Gutenberg