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The Great Mare (la Gran Mare, grant jument or grand'jument in French) a gigantic mare that serves as a mount for giants in several Renaissance works. Stemming from medieval traditions inspired by Celtic mythology, she appears in The Grand and Priceless Chronicles of the Great and Enormous Giant Gargantua, written in 1532, in which Merlin creates her from bones on-top of a mountain.
These Chronicles inspired Rabelais, of whom builds on these stories and writes the mare to be Gargantua's mount in The Very Horrific Life of the Great Gargantua, Father of Pantagruel, which was published five years later. Saddled up with as a new parody, the mare drowns her enemies with her urine and leveled de all of the trees of Beauce transforming the region into a plain.
This animal originated from a primeval dragon modeler of the landscape, or from the mountain of Celtic Gods. It shares the same original as Bayard's horse , according to Henri Dontenville and Claude Gaignebet. There are also some toponymes dedicated to him, without direct connections to Renaissance writings.