Gargantua

All these initial chapters of “Monkey King” exhibit a rollicking exuberance, somewhat like Rabelais’s hyperbolic accounts of the giants Gargantua and Pantagruel.

Rabelais wrote Gargantua here, in this city devoted to the most Pantagruelian of pleasures.

After Honoré Daumier caricatured King Louis Philippe as Gargantua, he was sent to prison.

Now the Gargantua of Dijon could once more lay hands on the broad lands of the fair Jacqueline.

There was left only the monk to provide for; whom Gargantua would have made Abbot of Seuillé, but he refused it.

The monk then requested Gargantua to institute his religious order contrary to all others.

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

Gargantua can procure for you wealth, honors, and influence.