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François Rabelais (UK: / ˈ r æ b ə l eɪ / RAB-ə-lay, US: / ˌ r æ b ə ˈ l eɪ /- LAY, French: [fʁɑ̃swa ʁablɛ]; born between 1483 and 1494; died 1553) was a French writer who has been called the first great French prose author.
May 27, 2024 · François Rabelais (born c. 1483–94, died 1553) was a French author who wrote the comic masterpiece Gargantua and Pantagruel. His literary works are known for their creative exuberance and their colorful and wide-ranging vocabulary.
François Rabelais (également connu sous deux anagrammes de son nom : Alcofribas Nasier ou bien Serafin Calobarsy — où « Françoys » est écrit en ancien français), né à la Devinière à Seuilly, près de Chinon (dans l'ancienne province de Touraine), en 1483 ou en 1494 selon les sources, et mort à Paris le 9 avril 1553, est un ...
May 25, 2024 · François Rabelais, (born c. 1483–94, Seuilly, France—died probably April 9, 1553, Paris), French writer, doctor, and priest. After apparently studying law, he took holy orders as a Franciscan but later, because of a dispute, removed to a Benedictine house.
François Rabelais (c. 1494 - April 9, 1553) was a major French Renaissance writer, doctor, and humanist. He is regarded as an avant-garde writer of fantasy, satire, the grotesque, dirty jokes, bawdy songs, and anarchism. His work was highly original, in both subject matter and quality.
Jul 8, 2022 · Francois Rabelais was a 16th-century French writer, scholar, physician, and literary figure, who gave the French language its nobility. He is remembered for his prodigious gift of verbal invention, as illustrated in his timeless parodic novels ‘Gargantua’ and ‘Pantagruel.’
May 23, 2018 · Rabelais, François (1494–1553) French humanist and satirist. Rabelais is famed for his classic series of satires, now known collectively as Gargantua and Pantagruel. The series itself consists of Pantagruel (1532), Gargantua (1534), Le Tiers Livre (1546), Le Quart Livre (1552) and Le Cinquième Livre (1564).
Rabelais, François ca. 1494–1553 French humanist and writer. Although he is best known as a writer of satire*, French author François Rabelais pursued many careers in his lifetime. At various times, he was a monk, a doctor, a teacher, a clergyman, and an expert in languages.
A prominent influence on writers from Laurence Sterne to James Joyce, Rabelais has been described as “the miracle of the sixteenth century” by Anatole France, and is often considered the French equivalent of William Shakespeare and one of the half-dozen or so giants of world literature.
French humanist François Rabelais wrote satirical attacks, most notably Pantagruel (1532) and Gargantua (1534), on medieval scholasticism and superstition. People historically regarded this major Renaissance doctor of fantasy, satire, the grotesque, bawdy jokes, and songs.
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