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...
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,...
L'attitude sophistique d'Alcofribas au cours des dix premiers chapitres du Gargantua est souvent comparee a celle de Panurge dans le Pantagruel, en particulier depuis l'article de Gerard Defaux consacre aux masques comiques de Rabelais. Il est indeniable que ces deux personnages exhibent une erudition...
Gargantua is tortured French for 'what a big one you've got' ('Que grand tu as') - meaning throat, since Gargantua's first cry was 'Drink, drink, drink, drink!' Pantagruel, Gargantua's son, is pseudo-Greek for 'all-thirsty'. The two names thus signify the same thing - unquenchable...
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.
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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