This French edition of 1711 gathers the works of Rabelais, centred on the comic books of Gargantua and Pantagruel. They tell of giants, their education, their wars and the travels of Pantagruel and his friends, including the cunning Panurge. Full of wordplay, learned jokes and rowdy scenes, the books mock empty scholarship, quarrelsome kings and hypocritical churchmen while praising curiosity, friendship and good living. Editions like this kept his work in circulation long after his death.