The complete online text of Gargantua and Pantagruel, Illustrated, Book 4 by François Guizot.

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...

Gerard Defaux. (Etudes Rabelaisiennes 32; Travaux d'humanisme et Renaissance 309.) Geneva: Droz, 627 pp. ISBN: 2-600-00202-2. Many of the copious studies on sixteenth-century France published over the last two years reconsider science in light of the fine arts and literature. Why and...

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...