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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.
The Five Books of the Lives and Deeds of Gargantua and Pantagruel (French: Les Cinq livres des faits et dits de Gargantua et Pantagruel), often shortened to Gargantua and Pantagruel or the Cinq Livres (Five Books), is a pentalogy of novels written in the 16th century by François Rabelais.
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.
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).
