François Rabelais

Gargantua and Pantagruel

Franc ̧ois Rabelais (1493-1553) is also the author of 'Pantagruel'.

The Most Horrific Life of the Great Gargantua, Father of Pantagruel

Gargantua

Jules Michelet

Pierre Michel

Christophe Colomb trouva son nouveau monde à cinquante ans. Rabelais avait à peu près le même âge, ou un peu plus, quand il trouva le sien. La nouveauté du fond fut signalée par celle de la forme. La langue française apparut dans une grandeur qu'elle n'a jamais eue, ni avant ni après. On l'a dit justement : ce que Dante avait fait pour l'italien, Rabelais l'a fait pour notre langue. Mais pour le fond, à qui le comparer ? A l'Arioste ? à Cervantès ? Non, tous deux rient sur un tombeau, sur la patrie défunte, et la chevalerie inhumée. Tous deux regardent au couchant. Rabelais regarde l'aurore. Il cingle à l'Est, vers les terres inconnues.

Pantagruel

Gargantua e Pantagruele. Ediz. bilingue

Gargantua en Pantagruel

Guy Demerson

Le Quart Livre (Ed. Demerson, Seuil)

Michel Renaud

Geneviève Demerson

Le tiers livre

Peter Anthony Motteux

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The Works of Francis Rabelais

Gargantua Et Pantagruel

Fils de Gargantua, Pantagruel - qui, bébé, réduit son berceau en miettes, étrangle un ours et mange le jarret de sa nourrice - donne le coup d'envoi de la Renaissance française. C'est un bon géant, qui sème l'épouvante et dont les exploits surpassent ceux d'Hercule. Mais Rabelais lui préfère encore Panurge, l'homme à tout faire, éternel étudiant sans scrupules qui connaît soixante-trois manières de se procurer de l'argent, toutes assez malhonnêtes. Et ces deux monstres de se lancer dans des voyages fabuleux. Or, ces êtres prodigieux nous ressemblent, et le moine-médecin Rabelais est toujours là, bouillonnant de santé et de jeunesse, fou d'idées et de malice.

Presents the complete works of French writer Francois Rabelais.

The Complete Works of Francois Rabelais

(édition de Lyon, Juste, 1533)

Five Books of the Lives, Heroic Deeds and Sayings of Gargantua and His Son Pantagruel; Tr. Into English by Sir Thomas Urquhart of Cromarty and Peter Antony Motteux; Illustrations by Louis Chalon

Five Books of the Lives, Heroic Deeds and Sayings of Gargantua and His Son Pantagruel

Containing Five Books of The Lives, Heroick Deeds & Sayings of Gargantua and His Sonne Pantagruel, Together with the Pantagrueline Prognostication, the Oracle of the Divine Bacbuc, and Response of the Bottle ; Hereunto are Annexed the Navigations Unto the Sounding Isle and the Isle of the Apedefts: as Likewise the Philosophical Cream with a Limosin Epistle

The Works of Mr. Francis Rabelais, Doctor in Physick

Émile Zola

Gustave Flaubert

Jean-Jacques Rousseau

Alexandre Dumas

Victor Hugo

Anatole France

Voltaire

Marcel Proust

George Sand

Charles Baudelaire

Stendhal

Jules Verne

Guy de Maupassant

Pierre Choderlos de Laclos

Molière

Gaston Leroux

Jean Racine

Pierre Corneille

Alexandre Dumas fils

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