Giant Garagantua and his Son Pantagruel'_
One of the first of Rabelais" books was entitled '_Lives of the great
Giant Garagantua and his Son Pantagruel'_. To it he owes a great deal of
his reputation and popularity. It created a vast deal of talk, and was
both highly praised and bitterly attacked. The champions of the church
criticised his book with great severity. Calvin the reformer also wrote
against it with much earnestness. The Sorbonne attacked it for teaching
heresy and atheism, and it was condemned by the court of parliament.