Quenouille de Gargantua
The menhir Quenouille de Gargantua (also called Quenouille du Gargantua - German "the distaff of Gargantua" ) standing in the forest west of La Croix Peinte, west and near the road D126 between Plaudren (in the southwest) and Plumelec in the Morbihan department in Brittany in France .
The menhir has a height of 5.7 m, a width of 1.5 m and is up to 0.7 m thick. About 60.0 m away is the row of stones "Alignement de la Croix Peinte" consisting of four small menhirs (the largest is about 1.60 m high) .
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 is a dolmen called Les Palets de Gargantua in the Indre-et-Loire department and the cairn " Hottée de Gargantua " near Molinchart .
See also
- Menhirs of Brittany
- Roche de Migourdy four kilometers south
literature
- Jacques Briard : Mégalithes de Bretagne. Éditions Gissert, Paris 2000, ISBN 2-87747-065-2 , p. 53.
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Coordinates: 47 ° 47 ′ 21.9 " N , 2 ° 40 ′ 57.9" W.