Rocambole
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Rocambole may be
- A name of two kinds of garlic, Allium scorodoprasumAllium scorodoprasumThe Sand leek , also known as Rocambole, is a perennial wild onion.It should not be confused with Rocambole garlic, which is A. sativum var. ophioscorodon.According to garlic grower Ron Engeland, A...
and Allium ascalonium, the latter of which is also called shallotShallotThe shallot is the botanical variety of Allium cepa to which the multiplier onion also belongs. It was formerly classified as the species A. ascalonicum, a name now considered a synonym of the correct name... - Rocambole (character)Rocambole (character)Rocambole is the creation of Pierre Alexis Ponson du Terrail, a 19th-century French writer. Rocambole is a fictional adventurer. His importance to the genres of adventure novels and crime fiction cannot be overestimated, as he represents the transition from the old-fashioned Gothic novel to modern...
, created by Pierre Alexis Ponson du Terrail as the main character of a series published in daily newspapers between 1857 and 1870