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.

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

In the northern zone, Pantagruel, the newspaper of Franc-Tireur, had a circulation of 10, 000 by June 1941, and was quickly replaced by Libération-Nord which reached a circulation of 50, 000.

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

See, for example, the Apennine Sibyl, though sometimes, e. g. for François Rabelais, ten was still the proverbial number: “ How know we but that she may be an eleventh Sibyl or a second Cassandra ?” Gargantua and Pantagruel, iii.

The original title of the work was Pantagruel roy des dipsodes restitué à son naturel avec ses faictz et prouesses espoventables.

Although most modern editions of Rabelais's work place Pantagruel as the second volume of a series, it was actually published first, around 1532 under the pen name " Alcofribas Nasier ", an anagram of Francois Rabelais.

At the end of The Fifth Book of Pantagruel ( in French, Le cinquième-livre de Pantagruel ; the original title is Le cinquiesme et dernier livre des faicts et dicts héroïques du bon Pantagruel ), which was published posthumously around 1564, the divine bottle is found.

( Marguerite herself was a protector of François Rabelais, who dedicated the third volume of his book, Gargantua and Pantagruel, to her.

Throughout the text, Bakhtin attempts two things: he seeks to recover sections of Gargantua and Pantagruel that, in the past, were either ignored or suppressed, and conducts an analysis of the Renaissance social system in order to discover the balance between language that was permitted and language that was not.

In Gargantua and Pantagruel ( 1532 – 52 ), François Rabelais wrote of the Abby of Thelema ( Greek word meaning " will " or " wish "), an imaginary utopia whose motto was " Do as Thou Will.

The name was borrowed from François Rabelais's satire Gargantua and Pantagruel, where an Abbey of Thélème is described as a sort of " anti-monastery " where the lives of the inhabitants were " spent not in laws, statutes, or rules, but according to their own free will and pleasure.

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:

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

In this book, Rabelais sings the praises of the wines from his hometown of Chinon through vivid descriptions of the " eat, drink and be merry " lifestyle of the main character, Pantagruel, and his friends.

Renaissance humorist François Rabelais jokingly refers to a book titled On the Dignity of Codpieces in the foreword to his book The Histories of Gargantua and Pantagruel.

The Third Book of Pantagruel ( in French, Le tiers-livre de Pantagruel ; the original title is Le tiers livre des faicts et dicts héroïques du bon Pantagruel ) concerns Pantagruel and his friend Panurge, who spend the entire book discussing with many people the question of whether Panurge should marry ; the question is unresolved.

In the notes to his translation of Gargantua and Pantagruel, Donald M. Frame proposes that book 5 may have been formed from unfinished material that a publisher later patched together into a book.

* The book is briefly mentioned in The Histories of Gargantua and Pantagruel ( 1532 – 34 ) by François Rabelais: " Far otherwise did heretofore the sages of Egypt, when they wrote by letters, which they called hieroglyphics, which none understood who were not skilled in the virtue, property, and nature of the things represented by them.

When the hero of his book, Pantagruel, journeys to the " Oracle of The Div ( in ) e Bottle ", he learns the lesson of life in one simple word: " Trinch!

The French author Rabelais in his epic Gargantua and Pantagruel also penned a list of imaginary and often obscene book titles in his " Library of Pantagruel " an inventory which Browne himself alludes to in Religio Medici.

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.

Rabelais's book Pantagruel depicts the fictional island of Medamothi ( Greek, for ' nowhere ').

The title of the book is a reference to a sentence by French writer François Rabelais, who famously wrote in Pantagruel: " one half of the world does not know how the other half lives " (" la moitié du monde ne sait pas comment l ' autre vit ").

The full modern English title for the work commonly known as Pantagruel is The Horrible and Terrifying Deeds and Words of the Very Renowned Pantagruel King of the Dipsodes, Son of the Great Giant Gargantua and in French, Les horribles et épouvantables faits et prouesses du très renommé Pantagruel Roi des Dipsodes, fils du Grand Géant Gargantua.

He produced an improved narrative of the life and acts of Pantagruel's father in The Very Horrific Life of Great Gargantua, Father of Pantagruel ( in French, La vie très horrifique du grand Gargantua, père de Pantagruel ), commonly known as Gargantua.

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

* 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.

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.

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.

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.

* Gargantua and Pantagruel, a series of four or five books including:

** Project Gutenberg e-text of Gargantua and Pantagruel

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.

Rabelais's main work of this nature is the Gargantua and Pantagruel series, which contain a great deal of allegorical, suggestive messages.