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 Biography of François Pierre Guillaume Guizot
714 words, approx. 2.4 pages
 The French statesman and historian François Pierre Guillaume Guizot (1787-1874) was a cold and clever politician whose refusal to grant electoral reforms precipitated the February Revolution of 1848. His scholarly publications, however, have been...
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 Gargantua and Pantagruel Information
1,452 words, approx. 5 pages
Gargantua and Pantagruel is a connected series of five novels written in the 16th century by François Rabelais. It is the story of two giants, a father (Gargantua) and his son (Pantagruel) and their adventures, written in an amusing, extravagant,...
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 Critical Essay by Margaret Broom Harp
17,172 words, approx. 57 pages
 In the excerpt below, Harp outlines the ways in which the encounter with the Ennasins in the Quart Livre reflects Rabelais's beliefs about evangelic humanism.
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Critical Essay by Gerard Ponziano Lavatori
12,220 words, approx. 41 pages
In the following excerpt, Lavatori contends that characters in Gargantua and Pantagruel “deliberately infringe upon the principles of good communication and use language and money to influence others in non-communicative ways.”
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Critical Essay by Ullrich Langer
7,625 words, approx. 25 pages
In the essay below, Langer considers the friendship between Pantagruel and Panurge in light of the competing intellectual beliefs of the time.
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