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This novel imitates its era’s formal prose in a letter that provides a character with a long list of authors to study for a thorough education. This novel parodies the astrological predictions of almanacs in a section titled for a character’s “prognostication.” This novel’s narrator is led to cities with stinking plagues by a peasant who plants cabbages in a scene whose “world” titles a chapter of Erich Auerbach’s Mimesis. Excrement is passed off as “Hibernian saffron” by a coward in this novel who often weighs the merits of marriage and causes a flock of sheep to mindlessly leap off a ship, dragging Dindenault to his death. In this novel, a son of Lord Grandgousier who requires the milk of 17,913 cows starts a flood by urinating from atop Notre-Dame. For 10 points, name this satirical set of novels about two giants by François Rabelais. ■END■
ANSWER: Gargantua and Pantagruel [or Gargantua et Pantagruel; or The Five Books of the Lives and Deeds of Gargantua and Pantagruel or Les Cinq livres des faits et dits de Gargantua et Pantagruel; accept Five Lives or Cinq Livres] (The chapter is “The World In Pantagruel’s Mouth.”)
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