revenons à nos moutons

From an old farce of the fifteenth century, Maistre Pierre Pathelin, verse 1191, attributed without foundation to Pierre Blanchet. M. F. Génin in his edition (1854) gives 1460 as the date, and Antoine de la Sale as the author. It was adapted in 1706 by Brueys and Palaprat, under the title of L’Avocat Patelin. See also Régnier , Sat., ii.