This article seeks to show Rabelais’s warning against the pitfalls of rhetoric by juxtaposing the formally perfect speech of the page Eudemon with the ridiculous harangue by the theologian Janotus de Bragmardo. Eudemon’s praise for the young prince Gargantua proves to be just as problematic as Janotus’s superfluous attempt, the former describing an ideal that does not (yet) exist, the latter unwittingly unmasking a deplorable reality.
CLIL theme: 4027 -- SCIENCES HUMAINES ET SOCIALES, LETTRES -- Lettres et Sciences du langage -- Lettres -- Etudes littéraires générales et thématiques