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François Rabelais

Humor and Satire Unraveling Human Folly Through Fantasy and Folklore.

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Author: François Rabelais

Narrator: Brian

Format: MP3

ISBN: 9780140445503

Language: English

Publish Date: 07/25/1969

Audiobook length: 31min

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Chapter 1: CONTENTS

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Chapter 2: THE FIFTH BOOK

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Chapter 3: the Quintessence cured the sick with a song.

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Chapter 4: the Queen passed her time after dinner.

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Chapter 5: Queen Whims' officers were employed; and how the said lady retained us among her abstractors.

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Chapter 6: the Queen was served at dinner, and of her way of eating.

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Chapter 7: there was a ball in the manner of a tournament, at which Queen Whims was present.

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Chapter 8: the thirty-two persons at the ball fought.

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Chapter 9: we came to the island of Odes, where the ways go up and down.

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Chapter 10: we came to the island of Sandals; and of the order of Semiquaver Friars.

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Chapter 11: Panurge asked a Semiquaver Friar many questions, and was only answered in monosyllables.

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Chapter 12: Epistemon disliked the institution of Lent.

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Chapter 13: we came to the land of Satin.

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Chapter 14: in the land of Satin we saw Hearsay, who kept a school of vouching.

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Chapter 15: we landed at the port of the Lychnobii, and came to Lantern-land.

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Chapter 16: we arrived at the Oracle of the Bottle.

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Chapter 17: we went underground to come to the Temple of the Holy Bottle, and how Chinon is the oldest city in the world.

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Chapter 18: we went down the tetradic steps, and of Panurge's fear.

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Chapter 19: the temple gates in a wonderful manner opened of themselves.

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Chapter 20: the Temple's admirable pavement.

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Chapter 21: we saw Bacchus's army drawn up in battalia in mosaic work.

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Chapter 22: the battle in which the good Bacchus overthrew the Indians was represented in mosaic work.

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Chapter 23: the temple was illuminated with a wonderful lamp.

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Chapter 24: the Priestess Bacbuc showed us a fantastic fountain in the temple, and how the fountain-water had the taste of wine, according to the imagination of those who drank of it.

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Chapter 25: the Priestess Bacbuc equipped Panurge in order to have the word of the Bottle.

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Chapter 26: Bacbuc, the high-priestess, brought Panurge before the Holy Bottle.

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Chapter 27: Bacbuc explained the word of the Goddess-Bottle.

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Chapter 28: Panurge and the rest rhymed with poetic fury.

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Chapter 29: we took our leave of Bacbuc, and left the Oracle of the Holy Bottle.

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3 quotes from Gargantua and Pantagruel

"Wise men should not cultivate a different kind of knowledge than that which serves the common good."
"Laughter is a sign of intelligence; let us not forget that it is the greatest gift we have to share with our fellow creatures."
"The world is essentially a great, complex work of art that can be understood through both reason and joy."

Author : François Rabelais

François Rabelais was a prominent French humanist and physician of the Renaissance, celebrated for his incisive satirical works, most notably *Gargantua* (1534) and *Pantagruel* (1532). Renowned for his mastery of fantasy, satire, and the grotesque, Rabelais employed bawdy humor and songs to critique medieval scholasticism and superstition. Often regarded as one of the great figures in world literature, his writings significantly shaped modern European literature. He also published under the pseudonyms Alcofribas Nasier and Séraphin Calobarsy.

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