Vintage engraving of a scene from Francois Rabelais's Gargantua and Pantagruel, by Jules Garnier. Chapter How Gargantua demolished the castle at the ford of Vede, and how they passed the ford. Then was it that he rushed with his great tree against the castle, and with mighty blows overthrew both towers and fortresses, and laid all level with the ground

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