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    Deeds of Gargantua and Pantagruel (French: Les Cinq livres des faits et dits de Gargantua et Pantagruel), often shortened to Gargantua and Pantagruel or the...
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  • de ce chien) can be found in Rabelais' 16th century pentalogy Gargantua and Pantagruel, literally translated by Motteux in the late 17th century. The...
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    Novelist | Author Clive Cussler". 16 June 2015. Gargantua and Pantagruel, Francois Rabelais, chapter "How Pantagruel, With His Tongue, Covered a Whole Army, and...
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  • Swift's, Gulliver's Travels Ent Gargantua and Pantagruel Hurtaly, fictional giant from François Rabelais' Gargantua and Pantagruel The Selfish Giant, a short...
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    Codpieces, in the foreword to his 1532 book, The Histories of Gargantua and Pantagruel. This fashion reached its peak of size and decoration in the 1540s...
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    form of the word, as the name of a fictional abbey in his novels, Gargantua and Pantagruel. The only rule of this Abbey was "fay çe que vouldras" ("Fais ce...
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  • writers, it is François Rabelais, the French Renaissance author of Gargantua and Pantagruel, and the 19th century Russian author Fyodor Dostoevsky, that he...
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    common subject of jokes and anecdotes. Rabelais's Tiers Livers of Gargantua and Pantagruel (1546) portrays a horned fool as a cuckold. In Molière's L'École...
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  • centuries. The chapter "How Panurge consulteth with Herr Trippa" of Gargantua and Pantagruel, a parody on occult treatises of Heinrich Cornelius Agrippa, contains...
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    the giant Gargantua, and taken prisoner to King Arthur who held court in London in Rabelais's Gargantua (1534). Gargantua's son Pantagruel also had an...
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  • [citation needed] Mary Coombe noted that "The Fifth book of Rabelais' Gargantua and Pantagruel depicts a King with his loyal followers sailing in a ship, stopping...
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    meaning "knave, rogue") is one of the principal characters in Gargantua and Pantagruel, a series of five novels by François Rabelais. Especially important...
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    lost film. The name was borrowed from François Rabelais's satire Gargantua and Pantagruel,[full citation needed] where an Abbaye de Thélème is described...
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    specific meaning. One of its earliest literary uses is in Rabelais's Gargantua and Pantagruel ("gai sçavoir"). It was derived from a Provençal expression (gai...
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    writer François Rabelais employed significant numbers in his novel Gargantua and Pantagruel, completed in 1564. The Flemish artist Frans Hogenberg made an...
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  • Ladies" 16th century François Rabelais – La vie de Gargantua et de Pantagruel ("Gargantua and Pantagruel") 17th century Honoré d'Urfé – L'Astrée Madame de...
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    Cervantes, Rabelais, Balzac, Milton, and Dante. He also illustrated "Gargantua et Pantagruel" in 1854. In 1853 Doré was asked to illustrate the works of Lord...
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  • abhorret vacuum" by François Rabelais in his series of books titled Gargantua and Pantagruel in the 1530s. The theory was supported and restated by Galileo...
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    Renaissance writer François Rabelais, particularly in his novel Gargantua and Pantagruel. Bakhtin argues that for centuries Rabelais's work has been misunderstood...
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    stuff themselves with acorns or medlars." In François Rabelais' Gargantua and Pantagruel, medlars play a role in the origin of giants, including the eponymous...
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  • Archived from the original on 2023-03-09. Retrieved 2022-05-10. Linnavuori, R. E. (1997). "Taxonomic Studies on the Miridae (Heteroptera) of Yemen and Iran"...
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  • Rabelais, who attacks the Kingdom of Grandgousier in the novel Gargantua and Pantagruel. He gives his name to the war he fights: la guerre picrocholine...
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    sequence Gargantua and Pantagruel, has his character Gargantua investigate a great number of ways of cleansing oneself after defecating. Gargantua dismisses...
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    genus name refers to Gargantua, the giant and protagonist of the 16th-century French novel The Life of Gargantua and of Pantagruel by Francois Rabelais...
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  • circulated as folk tales and been collected in books. The Life of Gargantua and of Pantagruel (16th century) by the French writer François Rabelais told the...
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  • Jones The Gambler, Bobok, A Nasty Story by Fyodor Dostoyevsky Gargantua and Pantagruel by François Rabelais Gentlemen Prefer Blondes by Anita Loos The...
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    created a wholly "fabricated giantology" for his 16th-century Gargantua and Pantagruel. Massive bones found in 1613 in France were initially assigned...
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  • Orlando Furioso, "The Raven", Don Quixote, Legend of Croquemitane, Gargantua and Pantagruel, Paradise Lost, and the Bible. Blind Guardian's song, from the...
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  • recognized. His translation of the François Rabelais novel series Gargantua and Pantagruel was also described by Barbara C. Bowen as "faithful, lively, and...
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    Cambridge University Press. pp. 147–148. ISBN 978-0-521-28172-0. Gargantua and Pantagruel Book 5, Chapter 8. Erasmus, Adagia 2.10.74 (Orci galea). Francis...
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