Rabelais characters

La vie tres horrifique du grand Gargantua, père de Pantagruel jadis composée par M. Alcofribas abstracteur de quinte essence. Livre plein de Pantagruelisme according to 's 1542 edition, or simply Gargantua, is the second novel by François Rabelais, published in 1534 or 1535.

thumb|Panurge captured by the Turcs. (etching by Gustave Doré) Panurge (from , used to mean "knave, rogue") is one of the principal characters in Gargantua and Pantagruel, a series of five novels by François Rabelais. Especially important in the third and fourth books, he is an exceedingly crafty knave, libertine, and coward.