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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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    for the first two volumes relating the childhoods of the giants Gargantua and Pantagruel written in the style of bildungsroman, his later works—the Third...
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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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  • in Rabelais's Gargantua and Pantagruel (c. 1532) as the phrase la bête à deux dos. Thomas Urquhart translated Gargantua and Pantagruel into English, which...
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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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    soldiers. It is recorded as early as 1534 by François Rabelais in Gargantua and Pantagruel. Lansquenet is played with an Italian pack of 40 cards. The dealer...
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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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    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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    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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    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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    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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    taken up by the Manichaean religion. In Pantagruel, Rabelais lists Hurtaly (a version of Og) as one of Pantagruel's ancestors. He describes Hurtaly as sitting...
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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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  • 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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  • 2020. "Nico Visscher". lambiek.net. Retrieved 3 October 2021. "Gargantua e Pantagruel di Rebelais a fumetti, riletti dall'arte di Dino Battaglia". www...
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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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  • 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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    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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  • Ass (Late second century AD) François Rabelais – The Life of Gargantua and of Pantagruel (1532-1564) Laurence Sterne – Tristram Shandy (1759) Friedrich...
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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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  • 1993. The series in the original French is entitled La Vie de Gargantua et de Pantagruel. Available English translations include The Complete Works of...
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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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    Festa's fame is his appearance in the introduction to Book Four of Gargantua and Pantagruel by François Rabelais. In the song Festa and others sing, Priapus...
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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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  • As evidence of his widespread fame, he is listed by Rabelais in Gargantua and Pantagruel as one of the most famous musicians of the time, and the printed...
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    Renaissance Europe through the themes of François Rabelais' book Gargantua and Pantagruel (1532–64). The idea of the culture of popular laughter combines...
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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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