Francois Rabelais was a French writer who has been called the first great French prose author. A humanist of the French Renaissance and a Greek scholar, he attracted opposition from both the Protestant theologian John Calvin and the hierarchy of the Catholic Church. Although in his day he was best known as a physician, scholar, diplomat and Catholic priest, he later became better known as a satirist for his depictions of the grotesque and for his larger-than-life characters. He was born between 1483 and 1494 and died in 1553.
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was a French writer who has been called the first great French prose author
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born between 1483
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died 1553
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faits et prouesses du très renommé Pantagruel, roy des Dipsodes, cioè il primo libro del suo romanzo, che diverrà più tardi il secondo; infatti il successo del Pantagruel lo indusse a scrivere poco dopo Gargantua. La vie inestimable du grand Gargantua, père de Pantagruel (sui cinque libri e la trama
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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.
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