page_title: Gargantua and Pantagruel
section_title: The Third Book
hierarchical_section_title: Gargantua and Pantagruel / Plot summary / The Third Book
caption_attribution_description: Français&#160;: Afin de savoir s'il doit se marier, Panurge consulte Her Trippa, qui, entre autres disciplines divinatoires, exerce l'astrologie. Gravure de Gustave Doré du premier tome de l'édition des Œuvres de Rabelais en 1873 par l'éditeur Garnier Frères.
context_page_description: The Life of Gargantua and of Pantagruel is a pentalogy of novels written in the 16th century by François Rabelais, telling the adventures of two giants, Gargantua and his son Pantagruel. The work is written in an amusing, extravagant, and satirical vein; features much erudition, vulgarity, and wordplay; and is regularly compared with that of Shakespeare and James Joyce. Rabelais was a polyglot, and the work introduced "a great number of new and difficult words [...] into the French language".
  The work was stigmatised as obscene by the censors of the Collège de la Sorbonne, and, within a social climate of increasing religious oppression in a lead up to the French Wars of Religion, it was treated with suspicion, and contemporaries avoided mentioning it.
  "Pantagruelism", a form of stoicism, developed and applied throughout, is "a certain gayety of spirit confected in disdain for fortuitous things".
context_section_description: In The Third Book of Pantagruel (in French, Le tiers-livre de Pantagruel; the original title is Le tiers livre des faicts et dicts héroïques du bon Pantagruel), Rabelais picks up where Pantagruel ended, continuing in the form of a dialogue.
  Pantagruel and Panurge discuss the latter's profligacy, and Pantagruel determines to pay his debts for him. Panurge, out of debt, becomes interested in marriage, and wants advice.
  A multitude of counsels and prognostications are met with, and repeatedly rejected by Panurge, until he wants to consult the Divine Bottle.
  Preparations for a voyage thereto are made.
caption: Illustration by Gustave Doré, Chapter XXV
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