This book made history in the development of French public thought and took its place among the world’s classic literature. Four hundred years it has been living on, expanding the circle of its readers as cultures and education grow among the peoples of the world.
The novel by the great French writer François Rabelais “Gargantua and Pantagruel” is the largest monument of the French Renaissance. The book is built on a broad foundation of folklore; it contains satire on fantastical things and adventurous heroics typical of the old chivalric novels.