Le But de Gargantua

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Le But de Gargantua

The menhir Le But de Gargantua ( German  Gargantuas Ziel ) stand in a field north of the dolmen of Changé (including the dolmen Le Berceau; excavated from 1983 to 2000 by Dominique Jagu), in the extreme south of Maintenon , on the border with Saint-Piat , near Chartres in the Eure-et-Loir department in France .

Gargantua is the name of a mythical giant that François Rabelais made famous in his novel cycle Gargantua and Pantagruel in the 16th century. There are dozens of menhirs named after Gargantua and the dolmen Les Palets de Gargantua . According to tradition, Gargantua shaped the landscape long before Rabelais recorded history.

Le But de Gargantua appears to be made up of two menhirs, one of which is a large gray slab about 2.5 meters high and the other about half that high and which may have once belonged together.

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Commons : Menhir dit Le But de Gargantua et dolmen dit Le Berceau  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

• Description and pictures (English)

Coordinates: 48 ° 34 ′ 10 "  N , 1 ° 35 ′ 0.8"  E