French satirist François Rabelais wrote in Gargantua and Pantagruel that a swan's neck was the best toilet paper he had encountered.

Petrarch popularized the sonnet as a poetic form ; Giovanni Boccaccio's Decameron made romance acceptable in prose as well as poetry ; François Rabelais rejuvenates satire with Gargantua and Pantagruel ; Michel de Montaigne single-handedly invented the essay and used it to catalog his life and ideas.

: Gargantua appears in episode two of the anime as a madman, with three bumbling demonic henchmen and a servant named Seiren ( derived from the Hellenic Siren ).

Gargantua is fiercely attached to her, and accidentally stabs her fatally with a knife when he jealously tries to dislodge a fellow orphan, Ritsuko, from Jill's arms.

At the end of the anime, thanks to Eve and Tamamonomae, Gargantua has a change of heart and returns to the realm Lilith gave him for the sacrifice of princess Mariel, taking Ritsuko with him.

At the end of the anime, thanks to some interference by Eve and Tamamonomae, Gargantua returns for Ritsuko, freeing her from her cell and taking her back with him to his own realm.

In Rabelais and His World, Bakhtin concerns himself with the openness of Gargantua and Pantagruel ; however, the book itself also serves as an example of such openness.

The postmodern position is that the style of a novel must be appropriate to what it depicts and represents, and points back to such examples in previous ages as Gargantua by François Rabelais and the Odyssey of Homer, which Nancy Felson hails as the exemplar of the polytropic audience and its engagement with a work.

He became friends around this time with a fellow physician, François Rabelais, who later wrote La vie de Gargantua et Pantagruel in which Rondelet is satirised under the thinly disguised alias of " Rondibilis ".

While the first English usage of the term was in 1603, by Shakespeare in Othello (" I am one, sir, that comes to tell you your daughter and the Moor are now making the beast with two backs "), the French translation of the term, la bête à deux dos, dates back to at least 1532, in François Rabelais ' Gargantua and Pantagruel:

Tiamat's church has a rigid hierarchy, beginning with the lowly Custodians of the Copper Chalice and continuing with, in ascending rank, the Defenders of the Silver Shield, Wardens of the Electrum Mail, Guardians of the Gold Scepter, Keepers of the Platinum Crown, Scales of the White Wyrm, Horns of the Black Beast, Wings of the Green Gargantua, Talons of the Blue Baatoran, Breaths of the Red Ravager, and the Dark Scaly Ones leading them all.

Around the same time, the band split with guitarist Scott Thompson, replacing him with former Gargantua Soul guitarist Jason Bozzi, who remains with the group to this day.

Gargantua ( 1929-November 1949 ) was a captive lowland gorilla who was famous in his lifetime and has been credited with saving the Ringling Brothers circus from bankruptcy.

Gargantua reached through, got no toe hold but wrenched Circusman North's left arm into the cage, bit & wrung it until Trainer Richard Kroner, pounding the gorilla with an iron stake, distracted its slow attention.

In 1941, he was paired with another gorilla, Toto ( short for Mitoto or M ' Toto ), who was advertised as " Mrs Gargantua ".

Despite the popularity of his book, both it and his prequel book on the life of Pantagruel's father Gargantua were condemned by the academics at the Sorbonne for their unorthodox ideas and by the Roman Catholic Church for their derision of certain religious practices.

His caricature of the king as Gargantua led to Daumier's imprisonment for six months at Ste Pelagie in 1832.

The French writer François Rabelais ( 1494 – 1553 ) wrote glowingly about the white wines of Anjou, and mentions the medicinal qualities of the grapes at the end of chapter XXV of Gargantua:

Usage of the term as a slang word for the anus dates back to at least the 16th century, as shown in Gargantua by François Rabelais.

Frank Buck ( animal collector ) | Frank Buck, star attraction of the Circus, 1938, introduced Gargantua at every performance.

Ringling bought Buddy from Mr Lintz ( for less than $ 10, 000 ) and renamed him " Gargantua " at his wife's suggestion.

An autopsy performed at Johns Hopkins Hospital revealed that Gargantua had been suffering from several conditions at the time of his death, including skin disease and four impacted and rotten wisdom teeth.

* Gargantua the Great at The Nonist

Despite her sexual and alcoholic tendencies, is not an unsympathetic character ; she has considerable insight into people and does some fairly altruistic things for some of the other characters ; she restores Mariel to human form, helps Gargantua to acknowledge the truth, returns the Hat to Eve and finally seems to have taken Gargantua's henchmen in as permanent guests.

* François Rabelais, in his classic Gargantua and Pantagruel, often employs the expression mâche-merde or mâchemerde, meaning shit-chewer.

* 1546 – Having published nothing for eleven years, François Rabelais publishes the Tiers Livre, his sequel to Gargantua and Pantagruel.

* He is also referenced in François Rabelais's Gargantua and Pantagruel.

An example from Gargantua and Pantagruel is " Christ, look ye, its Mere de ... merde ... shit, Mother of God.

Colonna's work was a great influence on the Franciscan monk François Rabelais, who in the 16th century, used Thélème, the French form of the word, as the name of a fictional Abbey in his novels, Gargantua and Pantagruel.

François Rabelais gives tarau as the name of one of the games played by Gargantua in his Gargantua and Pantagruel ; this is likely the earliest attestation of the French form of the name.

* Gargantua is published by François Rabelais.

The 16th century French satirical writer François Rabelais, in Chapter XIII of Book 1 of his novel-sequence Gargantua and Pantagruel, has his character Gargantua investigate a great number of ways of cleansing oneself after defecating.

In literature, he has been referenced by Rabelais in Gargantua and Pantagruel and by Shakespeare in Troilus and Cressida.

In literature, François Rabelais compares Gargantua's strength to that of Milo's in Gargantua and Pantagruel, and Shakespeare refers anachronistically to " bull-bearing Milo " in Act 2 of Troilus and Cressida.

His best known work is Gargantua and Pantagruel.

Using the pseudonym Alcofribas Nasier ( an anagram of François Rabelais minus the cedille on the c ), in 1532 he published his first book, Pantagruel, that would be the start of his Gargantua series.

Gargantua and Pantagruel tells the story of two giants — a father, Gargantua, and his son, Pantagruel — and their adventures, written in an amusing, extravagant, and satirical vein.

In particular, the letter of Gargantua to Pantagruel and the chapters on Gargantua's boyhood present a rather detailed vision of education.

It is in the first book where Rabelais writes of the Abbey of Thélème, built by the giant Gargantua.

None did awake them, none did offer to constrain them to eat, drink, nor to do any other thing ; for so had Gargantua established it.

Rabelais described how the student Gargantua learned about the world, and what is in it.

It was first mentioned on a written reference dating to 1535, in Gargantua and Pantagruel by Rabelais.