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Pantagruel

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Pantagruel, the second book (in chronological order of the narrative) of Rabelais's great work, but the first to be written and published (1532). Pantagruel is presented as the son of Gargantua and Badebec, daughter of the king of Amaurotes of Utopia (a reference to Sir T. More's work). The book describes his fantastic birth and childhood, his tour of the French universities, and his military exploits in Utopia. The narrative, which is continued in three further books, provides occasion for abundant satire directed against monks and schoolmen, the papacy, and the magistrature

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Pantagruel

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Pantagruel the name of the last of the giants in Rabelais's Pantagruel (1532), represented as an extravagant and coarse humorist who deals satirically with serious subjects; Pantagruelian in extended usage means enormous, gigantic.

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