Gargantua and Pantagruel

Describe Pantagruel's birth.

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Gargantua and Badebec give birth to Pantagruel, but Badebec dies in childbirth because her child is so large that he suffocates her. Gargantua names his son Pantagruel, meaning "all thirst", as terrible drought plagues Africa, and the midwife who delivers him prophesies that he will do wondrous works.