Talk:Gil Blas

Name of Ship
Name of a ship, used by emigrants from Britain to New Zealand, around 1855.

THE COMMERCIAL CODE OF SIGNALS FOR THE USE OF ALL NATIONS, WITH THE BRITISH ..., Published by WILLIAM MITCHELL, 1859

has 2 sailing ships of this name in the list of British Registered Vessels.

Index to Entries, on Page 280

109.150.47.176 (talk) 02:52, 5 March 2014 (UTC)
 * Tons. is "Tons register" (unladen weight).  "Tons burthen" (fully loaded), may be twice as much.
 * Both of these ships were used Australia <-> New Zealand, 1855
 * The schooner is in Lloyd's Register for 1845.
 * https://books.google.co.uk/books?id=C3yRpN0d1DgC&printsec=frontcover&source=gbs_ge_summary_r&cad=0#v=onepage&q=Gil&f=false — Preceding unsigned comment added by 78.147.37.105 (talk) 16:23, 9 July 2017 (UTC)


 * total wreck of the Schooner Gil Blas, Captain Small, on the South end of the Island of Mana
 * Ref  Wellington Independent, Issue 1208, 11 July 1857, Page 2
 * http://paperspast.natlib.govt.nz/cgi-bin/paperspast?a=d&cl=search&d=WI18570711.2.9&srpos=1&e=---10-WI-10Gil+Blas--
 * Google Maps -41.1023,174.7714


 * Gil Blas. Brig, 172 tons. Built Bremen, Germany, 1848. Used Bremen <-> New York, 1848-52,
 * Ashore, wrecked, on the Baffle Creek bar, Qld, Australia, 20 July 1865. [LQ]
 * Ref  http://oceans1.customer.netspace.net.au/qld-wrecks.html
 * Google Maps  -24.5000,152.0658

86.171.101.142 (talk) 13:46, 16 May 2015 (UTC)

last masterpiece?
Whoever wrote that sentence about how Gil Blas 'is considered the last masterpiece of the picaresque genre' pulled the idea out of his hat, considering the fact that neither Smollett nor Fielding had yet written anything. I'm removing it. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 79.14.250.194 (talk) 21:22, 28 January 2015 (UTC)


 * ( Maybe the contributor meant ultimate masterpiece of the genre? - which is not an unusual opinion - but chose the wrong word! )
 * 2A04:B2C2:805:5600:984:35BA:BF68:31AA (talk) 12:42, 8 June 2024 (UTC)

pronunciation of title
Does the reader of this article need to know how to pronounce the French title? --134.153.2.40 (talk) 19:16, 1 February 2019 (UTC)

Pedro Garcia (preface)
Anyone know anything of the "lawyer" Pedro Garcia, mentioned in Lesage's preface? 2A04:B2C2:805:5600:CD07:3E91:A1AB:299D (talk) 10:52, 8 June 2024 (UTC)