Grandgousier

Grandgousier and Gargantua himself, as well as in the expanded contrast of Pantagruel and Panurge.

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It _has_ been contended -- and rightly enough -- that in the general scheme and the two (or if you take in Grandgousier, three) generations of histories of the good giants, Rabelais is doing nothing more than parody -- is, indeed, doing little more than simply follow the traditions of Romance -- Amiles and Jourdains, Guy and Rembrun, and many others.

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Of course there are some people, and more than a person who wishes to think nobly of humanity might desire to find, who seem never to be tired of identifying Grandgousier, Gargantua, and Pantagruel himself with French kings to whom they bear not the slightest resemblance; of obliging us English by supposing us to be the

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Gargantua, whence we learn that Grandgousier is dead, and that his son is now the sagest of monarchs, who has taken to read Greek, and shows no memory of his governesses or his earlier student days.

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One half will fall upon this fellow Grandgousier and his people, and easily discomfit him at the first assault.

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His giants -- Grandgousier, Gargantua, Pantagruel -- are giants of good sense and large benevolence.

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The rescue of the sacred precincts of the Abbey of Seuillé from the invaders by that glorious monk (a personage at no great remove from our own Friar Tuck, to the later portraits of whom he has lent some of his own traits) pleases the soul well, as do the feats of Gymnast against Tripet, and the fate of the unlucky Touquedillon, and the escalade of La Roche Clermande, and (a little less perhaps) the pure burlesque of the eating of the pilgrims, and the combing out of the cannon balls, and the contrasted sweet reasonableness of the amiable though not at all cowardly Grandgousier.

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Spadassin and Merdaille blunder) and the sagest citations of _Festina lente_, they take him through Asia Minor to the Euphrates and Arabia, while the other army (that which has annihilated Grandgousier) comes round by the northern route, sweeping all Europe from Brittany and the

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This supplies the presentation of the serious, kindly, and human personality of the three princes (Grandgousier, Gargantua, and

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