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Definitions of gargantua in various dictionaries:
noun - a voracious giant in Francois Rabelais' book of the same name
A person of great size or stature and of voracious physical or intellectual appetites.
GARGANTUA - The Life of Gargantua and of Pantagruel (French: La vie de Gargantua et de Pantagruel) is a pentalogy of novels written in the 16th century by Franç...
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| The son of Grandgousier & Gargamelle, he was a medieval folk hero before Rabelais wrote about him |
| Seen here is a 19th century illustration of this Rabelais character |
| Rabelais wrote a "massive" satire about this father of Pantagruel |
| This son of Gargamelle was a medieval hero well before Rabelais wrote about him |
| Pantagruel's papa (9) |
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| A person of great size or stature and of voracious physical or intellectual appetites. |
| A person of great size a giant. |
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The Life of Gargantua and of Pantagruel (French: La vie de Gargantua et de Pantagruel) is a pentalogy of novels written in the 16th century by François Rabelais, which tells of the adventures of two giants, Gargantua (; French: [atya]) and his son Pantagruel (; French: [ptayl]). The text is written in an amusing, extravagant, and satirical vein, and features much crudity, scatological humor, and violence (lists of explicit or vulgar insults fill several chapters). * The censors of the Collège de la Sorbonne stigmatized it as obscene, and in a social climate of increasing religious oppression in a lead up to the French Wars of Religion, it was treated with suspicion, and contemporaries avoided mentioning it. According to Rabelais, the philosophy of his giant Pantagruel, "Pantagruelism", is rooted in "a certain gaiety of mind pickled in the scorn of fortuitous things" (French: une certaine gaîté d'esprit confite dans le mépris des choses fortuites). * Rabelais had studied Ancient Greek and h |