Gargantua

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At one point, Gargantua rinses his hands in wine, picks his teeth with a pig’s trotter, spreads a green cloth over the table and embarks on an epic spree of card games.

From Washington Post • Feb. 7, 2019

The series is called Gargantua and dinners are served every Thursday through Saturday.

From Los Angeles Times • Jun. 13, 2017

Surely Don Quixote or Moby Dick or Gargantua and Pantagruel would all be classed as postmodern novels, but they were written in the 17th, 19th and 16th centuries respectively – so what’s going on there?

From Salon • Aug. 20, 2012

In 1552, in a list of fantastical desserts in Rabelais' Gargantua and Pantagruel, we find hard written evidence that the word macaron meant a dessert.

From Slate • Nov. 16, 2011

Three years afterwards came Gargantua proper, the first book of the entire work as we now have it.

From A Short History of French Literature by Saintsbury, George