Satire in Renaissance

Rabelais’ Gargantua & Pantagruel: Giants, Satire, and Foodie Culture If French literature were a dinner party, François Rabelais would be the guest who shows up with a six-foot baguette, makes everyone laugh, and leaves with the center piece as a souvenir. His Gargantua et Pantagruel is one of the quirkiest, wittiest, and most stomach-rumbling texts…