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Les songes drolatiques de Pantagruel
16th century woodcut picture book
| Author | Richard Breton |
|---|---|
| Illustrator | François Desprez (?) |
| Genre | Picture book |
| Published | 1565 |
| Publication place | France |
| Media type | Woodcut |
Les songes drolatiques de Pantagruel (The Drolatic Dreams of Pantagruel) is a woodcut picture book published in 1565 by French illustrator Richard Breton.
While Breton released the book, he did not illustrate it. Its original illustrator is unknown, but is speculated to be engraver François Desprez.
Background
Published roughly a decade after the death of François Rabelais, a prominent writer and humanist in France, Les songes drolatiques was attributed to Rabelais by its publisher.
Its title refers to the title character of Rabelais' most famous work, Pantagruel, and Breton claims in the preface that the pictures represent the last works of Rabelais before he died.[1] The word "drolatic" is an archaic term coming fro
