'Gargantua' and 'Pantagruel' are literary works written by which 16th century French author?
Gargantua and Pantagruel Gargantua and Pantagruel The Life of Gargantua and of Pantagruel () is a pentalogy of novels written in the 16th century by François Rabelais, which tells of the adventures of two giants, Gargantua (; ) and his son Pantagruel (; ). The text is written in an amusing, extravagant, and satirical vein, and features much crudity, scatological humor, and violence (lists of explicit or vulgar insults fill several chapters). The censors of the Collège de la Sorbonne stigmatized it as obscene, and in a social climate of increasing religious oppression in a lead up to the French Wars of Religion,
Gargantua and Pantagruel 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. This volume begins with the miraculous birth of Gargantua after an 11-month pregnancy. The labor is so difficult, his mother threatens to castrate his father, Lord Grandgousier. The giant Gargantua emerges at his mother's left ear, calling for ale, while 17,913 cows were required for the provision of his daily milk. His first garment featured a codpiece whose "exiture, outjecting or outstanding ... was of the length of a yard", its contents providing so