Grandgousier (, "Big Throat") is a fictional character in the story of
Gargantua
''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 ...
by François
Rabelais. He is the husband of Gargamelle (the daughter of the King of Papillons) and the father of Gargantua.
A
Rabelaisien character ''par excellence'', he has an appreciation of good living, good heart, and all of life's pleasures.
Grandgousier represents a stereotypical good king, in apposition to the bad king of
Picrochole
Picrochole is a fictional character created by François Rabelais, who attacks the Kingdom of Grandgousier in the novel Gargantua and Pantagruel. He gives his name to the war he fights: .
Picrochole is a stereotypical bad king, whom Rabelais seek ...
. He advocates peace and discussion over war and greed.
Rabelais characters
Literary characters introduced in the 1530s
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