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Tables of Contents for Complete Works of Francois Rabelais
Chapter/Section Title
Page #
Page Count
Abbreviations
xix
Foreword
xxi
Translator's Note
xxv
Introduction
xxvii
BOOK 1 The Very Horrific Life of the Great Gargantua, Father of Pantagruel
To The Readers
2
1
Author's Prologue
3
4
Of the genealogy and antiquity of Gargantua
7
2
The antidoted Frigglefraggles, found in an ancient monument
9
3
How Gargantua was carried eleven months in his mother's belly
12
2
How Gargamelle, while pregnant with Gargantua, ate a great abundance of tripes
14
1
The palaver of the potted
15
4
How Gargantua was born in a very strange fashion
19
2
How the name was given to Gargantua, and how he inhaled the piot wine
21
1
How they dressed Gargantua
22
3
Of the colors and livery of Gargantua
25
2
Of what is signified by the colors white and blue
27
3
Of the childhood of Gargantua
30
1
Of Gargantua's hobbyhorses
31
3
How Grandgousier recognized the marvelous mind of Gargantua by the invention of an ass-wipe
34
3
How Gargantua was instructed by a sophist in Latin letters
37
2
How Gargantua was put under other teachers
39
1
How Gargantua was sent to Paris, and of the enormous mare that bore him, and how she killed the ox-flies of Beauce
40
2
How Gargantua paid his welcome to the Parisians and how he took the great bells of Notre Dame Church
42
1
How Janotus de Bragmardo was sent to recover the great bells from Gargantua
43
1
The harangue of Master Janotus de Bragmardo to Gargantua to recover the bells
44
2
How the sophist took home his cloth and how he had a suit against the other masters
46
2
Gargantua's mode of study according to the teaching of his sophist tutors
48
2
Gargantua's games
50
5
How Gargantua was taught by Ponocrates in such a regimen that he did not waste an hour of the day
55
5
How Gargantua used his time when the air was rainy
60
2
How there was aroused between the fouaciers of Lerne and the men of Gargantua's country a great dispute from which were built up great wars
62
2
How the inhabitants of Lerne, at the command of Picrochole their king, made an unexpected attack on Gargantua's shepherds
64
5
How a monk of Seuille saved the abbey close from being sacked by the enemy
65
4
How Picrochole took by storm La Roche Clermauld, and the regret and difficulty that Grandgousier felt about undertaking war
69
2
The tenor of the letter that Grandgousier wrote to Gargantua
71
1
How Ulrich Gallet was sent to Picrochole
72
1
The speech made by Ulrich Gallet to Picrochole
73
2
How Grandgousier, to buy peace, had the fouaces returned
75
2
How certain counselors of Picrochole, by rash advice, placed him in the utmost peril
77
4
How Gargantua left the city of Paris to succor his country, and how Gymnaste met the enemy
81
1
How Gymnaste killed Captain Tripet and others of Picrochole's army
82
2
How Gargantua demolished the chateau of the Ford of Vede, and how they crossed the ford
84
2
How Gargantua, in combing his hair, made artillery shells fall out of it
86
2
How Gargantua in a salad ate six pilgrims
88
2
How the monk was feasted by Gargantua, and his fine talk at supper
90
2
Why monks are shunned by everyone and why some people have bigger noses than others
92
3
How the monk put Gargantua to sleep, and of his hours and breviary
95
2
How the monk encourages his companions and how he hanged from a tree
97
2
How Picrochole's scouting party was met by Gargantua, and how the monk killed Captain Tiravant [Forward March], and then was taken prisoner by the enemy
99
2
How the monk got rid of his guards, and how Picrochole's scouting party was defeated
101
2
How the monk brought the pilgrims, and the kind words that Grandgousier spoke to them
103
2
How Grandgousier humanely treated his prisoner Blowhard
105
2
How Grandgousier sent for his legions, and how Blowhard killed Hastycalf, then was killed by order of Picrochole
107
2
How Gargantua attacked Picrochole in La Roche Clermauld, and defeated the said Picrochole's army
109
2
How Picrochole in flight was surprised by ill fortune, and what Gargantua did after the battle
111
1
The speech that Gargantua made to the vanquished
112
3
How the Gargantuist victors were rewarded after the battle
115
1
How Gargantua built for the monk the abbey of Theleme
116
2
How the abbey of the Thelemites was built and endowed
118
2
Inscription placed over the great gate of Theleme
120
3
How the manor of the Thelemites ran
123
1
How the religious of Theleme, men and women, were dressed
124
2
How the Thelemites were regulated in their way of life
126
1
A prophetic riddle
127
10
BOOK 2 Pantagruel, King of the Dipsodes, Restored to His Natural State with His Frightful Deeds and Exploits
Dizain by Master Hugues Salel ``To the Author of this Book''
132
1
Prologue of the Author
133
4
Of the origin and antiquity of the great Pantagruel
137
3
Of the nativity of the highly redoubtable Pantagruel
140
3
How Gargantua mourned for the death of his wife Badebec
143
1
Of Pantagruel's childhood
144
3
Of the deeds of the noble Pantagruel in his youth
147
3
How Pantagruel met a Limousin who counterfeited the French language
150
2
How Pantagruel came to Paris, and of the fair books of the Library of Saint-Victor
152
6
How Pantagruel, while in Paris, received a letter from his father Gargantua, and a copy of the same
158
5
How Pantagruel found Panurge, whom he loved all his life
163
4
How Pantagruel equitably judged a marvelously difficult and obscure controversy, so justly that his judgment was pronounced most admirable
167
3
How Lords Kissass and Sniffshit pleaded before Pantagruel without advocates
170
3
How Lord Sniffshit pleaded before Pantagruel
173
3
How Pantagruel gave his decision on the disagreement between the two lords
176
2
How Panurge relates the way in which he escaped from the hands of the Turks
178
4
How Panurge teaches a very new way of building the walls of Paris
182
4
On the ways and dispositions of Panurge
186
4
How Panurge got pardons and married off old women, and of the lawsuits he had in Paris
190
3
How a great scholar from England wanted to debate against Pantagruel, and was vanquished by Panurge
193
5
How Panurge made a monkey of the Englishman who argued by signs
198
3
How Thaumaste recounts the virtues and Knowledge of Panurge
201
2
How Panurge was smitten by a great lady of Paris
203
4
How Panurge played a trick on the Parisian lady that was not at all to her advantage
207
2
How Pantagruel left Paris, hearing news that the Dipsodes were invading the land of the Amaurots, and the reason why the leagues are so short in France
209
1
A letter that a messenger brought to Pantagruel from a lady of Paris, and the explanation of a phrase inscribed in a gold ring
210
3
How Panurge, Carpalim, Eusthenes, Epistemon, Pantagruel's companions, very subtly defeated six hundred and sixty knights
213
2
How Pantagruel and his companions were fed up with eating salt meat, and how Carpalim went hunting to get some venison
215
4
How Pantagruel set up a trophy in memory of their exploits, and Panurge another in memory of the hares. How Pantagruel of his farts engendered the little men, and of his fizzles the little women, and how Panurge broke a big stick over two glasses
219
3
How Pantagruel won the victory very strangely over the Dipsodes and giants
222
3
How Pantagruel defeated the three hundred giants armed with freestone and their captain Werewolf
225
5
How Epistemon had his chop headed off, was cleverly cured by Panurge, and how they got some news of the devils and the damned
230
6
How Pantagruel entered the city of the Amaurots and how Panurge married off King Anarche and made him a hawker of green sauce
236
2
How Pantagruel with his tongue covered a whole army, and what the author saw inside his mouth
238
3
How Pantagruel was sick, and the way in which he got well
241
3
The conclusion of the present book, and the author's excuse
244
17
BOOK 3 The Third Book of the Heroic Deeds and Sayings of the Good Pantagruel
Francois Rabelais: ``To the Spirit of the Queen of Navarre''
248
1
Royal Privilege (of 1545)
249
2
Royal Privilege (of 1550)
251
2
Prologue of the Author, Master Francois Rabelais
253
8
How Pantagruel transported a colony of Utopians into Dipsody
261
3
How Panurge was made lord of Salmagundi in Dipsody and ate his wheat in the blade
264
3
How Panurge praises debtors and creditors
267
4
Continuation of Panurge's speech in praise of creditors and debtors
271
2
How Pantagruel detests debtors and creditors
273
2
Why newlyweds were exempt from going to war
275
2
How Panurge had a flea in his ear, and left off wearing his magnificent codpiece
277
2
How the codpiece is the first piece of harness among warriors
279
3
How Panurge takes counsel of Pantagruel to learn whether he should marry
282
2
How Pantagruel points out to Panurge that advice about marriage is a difficult thing, and of Homeric and Virgilian lots
284
4
How Pantagruel points out that fortune-telling by throwing dice is unlawful
288
1
How Pantagruel explores by Virgilian lots what sort of marriage Panurge's will be
289
4
How Pantagruel advises Panurge to foresee by dreams the fortune or misfortune of his marriage
293
4
Panurge's dream and the interpretation thereof
297
4
Panurge's excuse and exposition of the monastic cabala in the matter of salt beef
301
2
How Pantagruel advises Panurge to consult with a sibyl of Panzoust
303
2
How Panurge speaks to the sibyl of Panzoust
305
3
How Pantagruel and Panurge diversely interpret the verses of the sibyl of Panzoust
308
3
How Pantagruel praises the counsel of mutes
311
3
How Goatsnose replies to Panurge in signs
314
3
How Panurge takes counsel of an old French poet named Raminagrobis
317
2
How Panurge champions the order of the mendicant friars
319
2
How Panurge makes a speech for returning to Raminagrobis
321
4
How Panurge takes counsel of Epistemon
325
2
How Panurge takes counsel of Her Trippa
327
4
How Panurge takes counsel of Frere Jean des Entommeures
331
6
How Frere Jean joyously advises Panurge
337
2
How Frere Jean comforts Panurge about his fear of cuckoldry
339
8
How Pantagruel calls a meeting of a theologian, a doctor, a jurist, and a philosopher to help Panurge's perplexity
347
2
How Hippothadee, the theologian, gives advice to Panurge on the undertaking of marriage
349
2
How Rondibilis, the doctor, advises Panurge
351
4
How Rondibilis declares that cuckoldry is naturally one of the attributes of marriage
355
3
How Rondibilis, the doctor, gives a remedy for cuckoldry
358
2
How women ordinarily covet forbidden things
360
2
How Trouillogan, the philosopher, treats the difficulty of marriage
362
2
Continuation of the replies of Trouillogan, the ephectic and Pyrrhonian philosopher
364
5
How Pantagruel persuades Panurge to take counsel of some fool
369
2
How Triboullet is blazoned by Pantagruel and Panurge
371
4
How Pantagruel attends the trial of Judge Bridoye, who decided lawsuits by the chance of dice
375
2
How Bridoye explains the reasons why he examined the lawsuits that he decided by the chance of dice
377
3
How Bridoye tells the story of the settler of lawsuits
380
4
How lawsuits are born, and how they come to perfection
384
4
How Pantagruel excuses Bridoye about the verdicts rendered by the chance of dice
388
2
How Epistemon tells a strange story of the perplexities of human judgment
390
2
How Panurge takes counsel of Triboullet
392
2
How Pantagruel and Panurge diversely interpret the words of Triboullet
394
2
How Pantagruel and Panurge decide to visit the oracle of the Divine Bottle
396
2
How Gargantua points out that it is not lawful for children to marry without the knowledge and consent of their fathers and mothers
398
3
How Pantagruel made his preparations to put out to sea and of the herb named Pantagruelion
401
2
How the famous Pantagruelion is to be prepared and put to use
403
3
Why it is called Pantagruelion, and of the admirable virtues thereof
406
3
How a certain kind of Pantagruelion cannot be consumed by fire
409
28
BOOK 4 The Fourth Book of the Heroic Deeds and Sayings of the Good Pantagruel
Old Prologue
415
6
Liminary Epistle (of January 28, 1552) ``To the Very Illustrious Prince and Most Reverend Monseigneur Odet, Cardinal de Chastillon''
421
4
Prologue of the Author M. Francois Rabelais
425
12
How Pantagruel put out to sea to visit the oracle of the divine Bacbuc
437
2
How on the island of Medamothi Pantagruel bought several beautiful things
439
2
How Pantagruel received a letter from his father Gargantua and of a strange way of getting news very promptly from distant foreign countries
441
3
How Pantagruel writes to his father Gargantua and sends him several rare and beautiful things
444
3
How Pantagruel encountered a ship with travelers returning from Lanternland
447
1
How, with the dispute pacified, Panurge bargains with Dindenault for one of his sheep
448
2
Continuation of the bargaining between Panurge and Dindenault
450
3
How Panurge had the merchant and the sheep drowned at sea
453
1
How Pantagruel reached the island of Ennasin, and of the strange relationships of the country
454
4
How Pantagruel went ashore on the island of Cheli, which was ruled by King Saint Panigon
458
2
Why monks like to be in the kitchen
460
2
How Pantagruel passed Procuration, and of the strange way of life among the Shysteroos
462
3
How, after the example of Master Francois Villon, the lord of Basche praises his people
465
2
Continuation of the Shysteroos drubbed in the house of Basche
467
2
How by Shysteroos are renewed the ancient wedding customs
469
3
How Frere Jean makes trial of the nature of the Shysteroos
472
2
How Pantagruel passed the islands of Tohu and Bohu, and of the strange death of Bringuenarilles, the windmill-swallower
474
3
How Pantagruel came safely through a mighty tempest at sea
477
2
How Panurge and Frere Jean behaved during the tempest
479
2
How quartermasters abandon ship at the height of the tempest
481
2
Continuation of the tempest, and brief discourse on wills made at sea
483
2
End of the tempest
485
2
How, with the tempest over, Panurge plays the jolly good fellow
487
2
How by Frere Jean Panurge is declared to have been scared without reason during the storm
489
2
How after the tempest Pantagruel went ashore on the islands of the Macraeons
491
1
How the good Macrobe tells Pantagruel about the abode and departure of heroes
492
2
How Pantagruel discourses on the departure of certain heroic souls, and of the horrific prodigies that accompanied the demise of the late lord of Langey
494
3
How Pantagruel relates a piteous story concerning the decease of heroes
497
1
How Pantagruel passed the island of Coverup, which was ruled by Fastilent
498
2
How Fastilent is anatomized and described by Xenomanes
500
3
Anatomy of Fastilent as regards the outward parts
503
2
Continuation of Fastilent's physical features
505
3
How Pantagruel sighted a monstrous physeter near the Wild Island
508
1
How Pantagruel slew the monstrous physeter
509
2
How Pantagruel goes ashore on the Wild Island, ancient abode of the Chitterlings
511
2
How an ambush is laid against Pantagruel by the wild Chitterlings
513
2
How Pantagruel sent for Captains Gobblechitterling and Chopsausage, with a noteworthy discourse on the proper names of places and persons
515
3
How Chitterlings are not to be despised among humans
518
1
How Frere Jean joins forces with the cooks to combat the Chitterlings.
519
2
How Frere Jean is set up in the sow and the valiant cooks are enclosed in it.
521
5
How Pantagruel snapped the Chitterlings over his knee.
526
2
How Pantagruel parleys with Niphleseth, queen of the Chitterlings.
528
2
How Pantagruel went ashore on the island of Ruach
530
1
How little rains beat down great winds.
531
2
How Pantagruel went ashore on the island of the Popefigs
533
3
How the little devil was fooled by a farmer from Popefigland.
536
2
How the devil was fooled by an old woman of Popefigland
538
2
How Pantagruel went ashore on the island of the Papimaniacs.
540
2
How Grosbeak, bishop of the Papimaniacs, showed us the uranopete Decretals.
542
2
How by Grosbeak we were shown the archetype of a pope.
544
2
Small talk during dinner in praise of the Decretals
546
2
Continuation of the miracles occasioned by the Decretals
548
4
How by virtue of the Decretals gold is subtly drawn from France into Rome.
552
2
How Grosbeak gave Pantagruel some good-Christian pears
554
2
How on the high seas Pantagruel heard some unfrozen words.
556
2
How among the frozen words Pantagruel found some lusty jests
558
2
How Pantagruel went ashore at the abode of Messere Gaster, first master of arts in the world.
560
2
How in the court of the ingenious master, Pantagruel detested the Engastrimyths and the Gastrolaters
562
2
Of the ridiculous statue called Manduce, and how and what the Gastrolaters sacrificed to their ventripotent god.
564
5
How, on the interlarded fast-days, the Gastrolaters sacrifice to their god
569
5
How Gaster invented the methods of getting and preserving grain
574
2
How Gaster invented an art and means not to be wounded or touched by cannon shots.
576
2
How Pantagruel took a nap near the island of Chaneph, and of the problems proposed when he waked.
578
3
How no answer was given by Pantagruel to the problems proposed
581
4
How Pantagruel enjoys his time with his household
585
2
How, near the island of Ganabin, at Pantagruel's commandment the muses were saluted.
587
2
How Panurge beshat himself in panic fear and thought the great cat Rodilardus was a devilkin.
589
26
Brief Declaration
593
16
BOOK 5 The Fifth and Last Book of the Heroic Deeds and Sayings of the Good Pantagruel
Prologue
609
6
M. Francois Rabelais
How Pantagruel arrived on the Ringing Island, and of the noise we heard
615
2
How the Ringing Island was inhabited by Siticines, who had turned into birds.
617
1
How on the Ringing Island there is only one Popehawk.
618
2
How the birds of the Ringing Island are all birds of passage.
620
2
How the Gourmander birds are mute on the Ringing Island.
622
1
How the birds of the Ringing Island are fed.
623
2
How Panurge tells Aeditus the fable of the charger and the donkey
625
3
How Popehawk was shown us with great difficulty
628
3
How we went ashore on the island of Ironware
631
1
How Pantagruel arrived on Sharpers' Island
632
2
How we passed the Wicket, abode of Clutchpuss, archduke of the Furred Cats
634
3
How a riddle is propounded by Clutchpuss.
637
1
How Panurge explains Clutchpuss's riddle.
638
2
How the Furred Cats live on corruption
640
2
How Frere Jean des Entommeures determines to sack the Furred Cats
642
3
How we passed Beyond, and how Panurge nearly got killed there.
645
1
How we ran aground, and how we were helped by some travelers from dependencies of the Quint.
646
3
How we reached the kingdom of Quint Essence, named Entelechy.
649
1
How the Quint Essence cured the sick by songs.
650
3
How the queen spent her time after dinner.
653
2
How the officers of the Quint operate diversely, and how the queen kept us on in the estate of Abstractors
655
2
How the queen was served at supper, and how she ate.
657
2
How, in the presence of the Quint, was performed a joyous ball in the form of a tourney.
659
2
How the thirty-two persons in the ball fight.
661
4
How we went ashore on the island of Odes, where the roads go places.
665
2
How we stopped on the island of Clogs, and of the order of the Semiquaver [Minimal] Friars.
667
4
How Panurge, questioning a Semiquaver Friar, got no answer from him except in monosyllables.
671
5
How Epistemon dislikes the institution of Lent.
676
2
How we visited the land of Satin.
678
3
How in the land of Satin we saw Hearsay running a school for witnesses.
681
2
How we came in sight of Lanternland
683
1
How we disembarked at the port of the Lichnobians and entered Lanternland
684
1
How we reached the oracle of the Bottle.
685
2
How we went underground to enter the temple of the Bottle, and how Chinon is the first city in the world.
687
1
How we went down the tetradic steps, and of Panurge's fear.
688
2
How the doors of the temple opened of themselves
690
2
How the temple was paved with an admirable mosaic
692
2
How in the temple's mosaic work was represented the battle that Bacchus won against the Indians
694
2
How in the mosaic was pictured the clash and assault of good old Bacchus against the Indians.
696
2
How the temple was lighted by a marvelous lamp.
698
1
How the pontiff Bacbuc showed us a fantastic fountain inside the temple
699
1
How the water of the fountain gave a taste of wines to suit the imagination of those who drank it.
700
5
How Bacbuc accoutered Panurge to get the word of the Bottle.
705
1
How the pontiff Bacbuc presented Panurge before the said Bottle
706
3
How Bacbuc interprets the word of the Bottle
709
2
How Panurge and the others rhyme in poetic frenzy.
711
4
How, after taking leave of Bacbuc, they leave the oracle of the Bottle.
715
1
How Pantagruel arrives on the island of the Apedeftes, with their long fingers and crooked hands, and of the terrible adventures and monsters he found there.
716
5
How the lady lanterns were served at supper
721
14
6 Miscellaneous Writings
To Guillaume Bude. March 4, 1521. Letter in Latin, with much Greek.
735
3
To Andre Tiraqueau. 1524. Epistle in Greek verse.
738
1
To Jean Bouchet. September 6, 1524. Epistle in French verse.
738
3
Tiraqueau/Manardi. July 9, 1532. Dedicatory Epistle for Volume II of the Medical Letters of Manardi.
741
2
To Geoffroy d'Estissac. July 15, 1532. Dedicatory Epistle for R's edition of the Aphorisms of Hippocrates and some writings by Galen.
743
2
To Amaury Bouchard. September 4, 1532. Dedicatory Epistle for R's edition of the Latin Will of Cuspidius.
745
1
To Bernard Salignac. November 30, 1532. Missive letter to Erasmus.
746
1
Pantagrueline Prognostication. Late 1532.
747
9
Almanac for 1533. Late 1532.
756
1
To Jean du Bellay. August 31, 1534. Dedicatory Epistle
757
3
Almanac for 1535. Late 1534
760
2
To Geoffroy d'Estissac. December 30, 1535. Missive letter from Rome.
762
4
To Geoffroy d'Estissac. January 28, 1536. Missive letter from Rome.
766
4
To Geoffroy d'Estissac. February 15, 1536. Letter from Rome.
770
7
To Estienne Dolet. Undated (1538 or before). Latin dizain about garum.
777
1
To Briand Vallee. Undated. Jest by Francois Rabelais.
778
1
Almanac for the Year 1541. Late 1540.
779
1
To Antoine Hullot. March 1, 1542. Missive letter in French prose.
780
1
The Great New True Prognostication for the Year 1544. Late 1543.
781
6
To Cardinal du Bellay. February 6, 1547. Missive letter in French prose.
787
1
The Shadow Battle. Between March 4 and December, 1549. In French prose.
788
13
Sapphic Ode. 1549-1551. By the Most Reverend Cardinal Jean du Bellay
801
6
Notes
807
140
Glossary
947