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  1. Gargantua
    1998 · Science fiction · 1h 36m

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  1. The Five Books of the Lives and Deeds of Gargantua and Pantagruel (French: Les Cinq livres des faits et dits de Gargantua et Pantagruel), often shortened to Gargantua and Pantagruel or the Cinq Livres (Five Books), is a pentalogy of novels written in the 16th century by François Rabelais.

  2. Gargantua is a very massive, rapidly spinning black hole. It is orbited by the planets Miller and Mann, as well as an unnamed neutron star. A main sequence star Pantagruel was located within a year's flight of Gargantua along with the habitable planet Edmunds.

  3. Gargantua and Pantagruel, collective title of five comic novels by François Rabelais, published between 1532 and 1564. The novels present the comic and satiric story of the giant Gargantua and his son Pantagruel, and various companions, whose travels and adventures are a vehicle for ridicule of the.

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  4. Aug 8, 2004 · prepared by Sue Asscher in 1998, from: "MASTER FRANCIS RABELAIS FIVE BOOKS OF THE LIVES, HEROIC. DEEDS AND SAYINGS OF GARGANTUA AND HIS SON PANTAGRUEL", Translated into English by Sir Thomas Urquhart of Cromarty. and Peter Antony Motteux.

  5. Learn about the life and works of François Rabelais, a Renaissance writer who challenged authority and convention with his humor and wit. Explore the adventures of Gargantua and Pantagruel, two giants who defy social norms and embody the humanist spirit.

  6. Aug 8, 2004 · A classic satire by Francois Rabelais, translated into English by Sir Thomas Urquhart and Peter Antony Motteux. The book tells the stories of Gargantua and his son Pantagruel, two giants who live in a world of absurdity and humor.

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