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Jan 1, 1494 — Apr 9, 1553· 59 yrs

KINGDOM OF FRANCE AUTHOR · FICTION · GIANTS

François Rabelais

Also known as: Rabelais, François, Francois Rabelais

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François Rabelais (UK: , US: ; French: [fʁɑ̃swa ʁablɛ]; born between 1483 and 1494; died 1553) was a French writer who has been called the first great French prose author. A humanist of the French Renaissance and Greek scholar, he attracted opposition from both Protestant theologian John Calvin and from the hierarchy of the Catholic Church. Though in his day he was best known as a physician, scholar, diplomat, and Catholic priest, later he became better known as a satirist for his depictions of the grotesque, and for his larger-than-life characters. Living in the religious and political turmoil of the Reformation, Rabelais treated the great questions of his time in his novels. Rabelais admired Erasmus and like him is considered a Christian humanist.

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Readers, friends, if you turn these pages Put your prejudice aside, For, really, there's nothing here that's outrageous, Nothing sick, or bad-or contagious.

— from Gargantua and Pantagruel

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Œuvres complètes

1990

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En introduction, histoire critique des oeuvres de Pascal, et inventaire descriptif des sources. En première partie, écrits biographiques, mémoires et témoignages du XVIIe siècle relatifs à Pascal et à sa famille. Oeuvres historiques de Gilberte Pascal et de Marguerite Périer. (jaquette).

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Gargantua et Pantagruel

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This is the third book (hence "Tiers Livre") of François Rabelais's satirical masterpiece usually called Gargantua et Pantagruel. Pantagurel's sidekick and servant, Panurge ("trickster" in Greek), is trying to decide if he should get married--he wants sons, but he is terrified that a wife might beat, rob, and cuckold him. He, Pantagruel, and Pantagruel's other followers consult a range of supposed "experts" from magicians to lawyers and Panurge refuses to accept either that yes, he'll probably get cuckolded, or that in life you need to decide what you want, take a chance and risk being wrong. This brilliant and profound--and very funny--book has religious significance in an age of painful religious choice and of course relevance to all human relations. How to have a good wife? Panurge is told that being a good husband is probably the best way, but he will have none of that. One of the world's great classics.

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Curious and fantastic creatures

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