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Gargantua and Pantagruel

François Rabelais

Form
Form Novel
Year
Year 1564
Originally in
Originally in French
Pages
Pages 700

A father-and-son pair of giant kings eat, drink, brawl and philosophise their way through a parade of pedants and monks, and the joke swallows the whole learned world.

Do what thou wilt.
Gargantua and Pantagruel, François Rabelais

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