Gargantua

CONTENTS

 * The Author's Prologue to the First Book


 * Rabelais to the Reader


 * Chapter I - Of the Genealogy and Antiquity of Gargantua


 * Chapter II - The Antidoted Fanfreluches:Chapter  or, a Galimatia of extravagant Conceits found in an ancient Monument


 * Chapter III - How Gargantua was carried eleven months in his mother's belly


 * Chapter IV - How Gargamelle, being great with Gargantua, did eat a huge deal of tripes


 * Chapter V - The Discourse of the Drinkers


 * Chapter VI - How Gargantua was born in a strange manner


 * Chapter VII - After what manner Gargantua had his name given him, and how he tippled, bibbed, and curried the can


 * Chapter VIII - How they apparelled Gargantua


 * Chapter IX - The colours and liveries of Gargantua


 * Chapter X - Of that which is signified by the colours white and blue


 * Chapter XI - Of the youthful age of Gargantua


 * Chapter XII - Of Gargantua's wooden horses


 * Chapter XIII - How Gargantua's wonderful understanding became known to his father Grangousier, by the invention of a torchecul or wipebreech


 * Chapter XIV - How Gargantua was taught Latin by a Sophister


 * Chapter XV - How Gargantua was put under other schoolmasters


 * Chapter XVI - How Gargantua was sent to Paris, and of the huge great mare that he rode on; how she destroyed the oxflies of the Beauce


 * Chapter XVII - How Gargantua paid his welcome to the Parisians, and how he took away the great bells of Our Lady's Church


 * Chapter XVIII - How Janotus de Bragmardo was sent to Gargantua to recover the great bells


 * Chapter XIX - The oration of Master Janotus de Bragmardo for recovery of the bells


 * Chapter XX - How the Sophister carried away his cloth, and how he had a suit in law against the other masters


 * Chapter XXI - The study of Gargantua, according to the discipline of his schoolmasters the Sophisters


 * Chapter XXII - The games of Gargantua


 * Chapter XXIII - How Gargantua was instructed by Ponocrates, and in such sort disciplinated, that he lost not one hour of the day


 * Chapter XXIV - How Gargantua spent his time in rainy weather


 * Chapter XXV - How there was great strife and debate raised betwixt the cake-bakers of Lerne, and those of Gargantua's country, whereupon were waged great wars


 * Chapter XXVI - How the inhabitants of Lerne, by the commandment of Picrochole their king, assaulted the shepherds of Gargantua unexpectedly and on a sudden


 * Chapter XXVII - How a monk of Seville saved the close of the abbey from being ransacked by the enemy


 * Chapter XXVIII - How Picrochole stormed and took by assault the rock Clermond, and of Grangousier's unwillingness and aversion from the undertaking of war


 * Chapter XXIX - The tenour of the letter which Grangousier wrote to his son Gargantua


 * Chapter XXX - How Ulric Gallet was sent unto Picrochole


 * Chapter XXXI - The speech made by Gallet to Picrochole


 * Chapter XXXII - How Grangousier, to buy peace, caused the cakes to be restored


 * Chapter XXXIII - How some statesmen of Picrochole, by hairbrained counsel, put him in extreme danger


 * Chapter XXXIV - How Gargantua left the city of Paris to succour his country, and how Gymnast encountered with the enemy


 * Chapter XXXV - How Gymnast very souply and cunningly killed Captain Tripet and others of Picrochole's men


 * Chapter XXXVI - How Gargantua demolished the castle at the ford of Vede, and how they passed the ford


 * Chapter XXXVII - How Gargantua, in combing his head, made the great cannon-balls fall out of his hair


 * Chapter XXXVIII - How Gargantua did eat up six pilgrims in a salad


 * Chapter XXXIX - How the Monk was feasted by Gargantua, and of the jovial discourse they had at supper


 * Chapter XL - Why monks are the outcasts of the world; and wherefore some have bigger noses than others


 * Chapter XLI - How the Monk made Gargantua sleep, and of his hours and breviaries


 * Chapter XLII - How the Monk encouraged his fellow-champions, and how he hanged upon a tree


 * Chapter XLIII - How the scouts and fore-party of Picrochole were met with by Gargantua, and how the Monk slew Captain Drawforth, and then was taken prisoner by his enemies


 * Chapter XLIV - How the Monk rid himself of his keepers, and how Picrochole's forlorn hope was defeated


 * Chapter XLV - How the Monk carried along with him the Pilgrims, and of the good words that Grangousier gave them


 * Chapter XLVI - How Grangousier did very kindly entertain Touchfaucet his prisoner


 * Chapter XLVII - How Grangousier sent for his legions, and how Touchfaucet slew Rashcalf, and was afterwards executed by the command of Picrochole


 * Chapter XLVIII - How Gargantua set upon Picrochole within the rock Clermond, and utterly defeated the army of the said Picrochole


 * Chapter XLIX - How Picrochole in his flight fell into great misfortunes, and what Gargantua did after the battle


 * Chapter L - Gargantua's speech to the vanquished


 * Chapter LI - How the victorious Gargantuists were recompensed after the battle


 * Chapter LII - How Gargantua caused to be built for the Monk the Abbey of Theleme


 * Chapter LIII - How the abbey of the Thelemites was built and endowed


 * Chapter LIV - The inscription set upon the great gate of Theleme


 * Chapter LV - What manner of dwelling the Thelemites had


 * Chapter LVI - How the men and women of the religious order of Theleme were apparelled


 * Chapter LVII - How the Thelemites were governed, and of their manner of living


 * Chapter LVIII - A prophetical Riddle

Gargantua/Édition Marty-Laveaux, 1868