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Dictionary of Phrase and Fable—B

Baron Munchausen

(pron. Moohn-kow-zn). Said to be a satire on Bruce, the Abyssinian traveller, to whom the work was dedicated. The author was Raspè, a German fugitive from the officers of justice, living in Cornwall (1785). The chief incidents were compiled from various sources, such as the Mendacia Ridicula of J. P. Lange; Lucian's True History of Things Discovered in the Moon: Rabelais; and the Folheto de Ambas Lisboa.

Source: Dictionary of Phrase and Fable, E. Cobham Brewer, 1894
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