Rabelais — Erosophia Encyclopedia

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Rabelais — Monk, physician and writer, c. 1483/1494–1553

Franciscan then Benedictine, a Greek scholar, physician at the Hôtel-Dieu of Lyon, he published under an anagram, in 1532, Pantagruel — a giant, an enormous laugh, and behind it the new humanism. Condemned by the Sorbonne, protected by the du Bellays, he became curé of Meudon in 1551. (Editorial synthesis)

Rabelais was born around 1483 (Julian calendar). (source: Encyclopædia Britannica and Larousse)

Rabelais was born in Seuilly. (source: Encyclopædia Britannica)

Rabelais died in Paris. (source: Encyclopædia Britannica)

Recorded work of Rabelais: Gargantua. (source: Encyclopædia Britannica)

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