Dent de Gargantua (Saint-Suliac)
The menhir Dent de Gargantua (also Chablé menhir - German tooth of Gargantua called) is a white quartz menhir in an orchard near Chablé, southeast of Saint-Suliac , near the Rance estuary, south of Saint-Malo in the Ille department et-Vilaine in Brittany in France .
The almost 5.0 meter high, obelisk-like menhir is about 3.0 m wide and 2.0 m thick. Classified as a Monument historique in 1889 , the menhir stands near the road, but it is not easy to spot it in the vegetation that surrounds it. There used to be an Allée couverte nearby , which was destroyed by the farmer, as well as another menhir called "Le Gravier de Gargantua".
Gargantua is the name of a mythical giant that François Rabelais (1483–1553) made famous in his cycle of novels Gargantua and Pantagruel in the 16th century.
The menhir de la Vacherie is also called "Molaire de Gargantua" (Gargantua molar).
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Coordinates: 48 ° 33 ′ 55.7 " N , 1 ° 57 ′ 19.2" W.