Grandgousier (french: grand gosier, "Big Throat") is a fictional character in the story of
Gargantua
''The Life of Gargantua and of Pantagruel'' (french: La vie de Gargantua et de 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 ...
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. He advocates peace and discussion over war and greed.
Rabelais characters
Literary characters introduced in the 1530s
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