La Vie du Fameux Gargantuas, le plus Terrible Geant qui ait jamais paru sur la terre
Subtitle: Traduction nouvelle, dressée sur un ancien Manuscrit qui s'est trouvé dans la Bibliothéque du Grand-Mogol.
Publisher: Chez Jean-Antoine Garnier, Imprimeur-Libraire, rue du Temple
Published: 1738
Place of publication: A Troyes
Language: fre
Number of pages: 46
Work titles: Gargantua.
Notes: On final two unnumbered pages: 'Extrait de  la Permission', 'Donné à Versailles, le 19. jour de May, l'an de grace 1738', and Registration, dated 'A Paris, le 24. Septembre 1738'; conjectural date based on these; the NUC suggests '[1739]' for an undated Troyes edition also containing 46 pages, but cites no printer.

Gargantua is 'the giant hero of a series of popular burlesque romances featuring well-known characters from the Arthurian legends ... later included in the Bibliothèque Bleue. The version printed in 1532 seems to have prompted Rabelais to invent Pantagruel, son of Gargantua, then to tell his own version of the story of Gargantua ... he ... turns the work into a vehicle for contemporary satire' [NODLF]

This romance, part of the Bibliothèque bleue, was reprinted many times in the 17th and 18th centuries, in Rouen, Tours and Troyes.

Nisard 1, 544.