He suffered from all the tropical diseases, which he tried to keep down with Pantagruelian drinking.

Portions are sensible, not Pantagruelian.

Hint: If you're going to really press your luck and give someone one of this year's models that you fear they might eventually smack you with, steer clear of Pantagruelian blabfests like "The Historian."

Democracy in Brazil, he added, "runs the risk of becoming the captive of a single party, due both to the Pantagruelian appetite of the party that has reached power nationally and the fragility of the others."

On 17 February 1454, one year after the taking of Constantinople by the Turks, Philip the Good organised a Pantagruelian banquet at his Lille palace, the still-celebrated "Feast of the Pheasant".