Essays on La vie de Gargantua et de Pantagruel

According to the works of Marguerite de Navarre and Francois Rabelais, there must be a balance between worldly pleasures and piety. There must not only be a balance between these two forces, but also between righteousness and sin. Marguerite de Navarre illustrates through bawdy stories of love and lust in The Heptameron that show how much the sixteenth century French people value virtue and chastity, and how they manage their religious duties and secular pleasures, With sometimes crude humor, Francois…