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1. Rabelais, Francois Rabelaisnoun

   author of satirical attacks on medieval scholasticism (1494-1553)

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1. François Rabelais

   François Rabelais (UK: RAB-ə-lay, US: -⁠LAY, French: [fʁɑ̃swa ʁablɛ]; born between 1483 and 1494; died 1553) was a French Renaissance writer, physician, Renaissance humanist, monk and Greek scholar. He is primarily known as a writer of satire, of the grotesque, and of bawdy jokes and songs. Ecclesiastical yet anticlerical, Christian yet considered by some as a free thinker, a doctor yet having the image of a bon vivant, the multiple facets of his personality sometimes seem contradictory. Caught up in the religious and political turmoil of the Reformation, Rabelais showed himself to be both sensitive and critical towards the great questions of his time. Subsequently, the views of his life and work have evolved according to the times and currents of thought. An admirer of Erasmus, through parody and satire Rabelais fought for tolerance, peace, an evangelical faith, and a return to the knowledge of ancient Greco-Romans to dispel the "Gothic darkness" that characterized the Middle Ages. He took up the theses of Plato to counter what he regarded as the excessive Aristotelianism of medieval scholasticism. He attacked the abuses of princes and men of the Church, and opposed to them on the one hand evangelical humanist thought, and on the other hand popular culture, bawdy, "joking", marked by the taste for wine and games. Rabelais thus manifested a humble and open Christian faith, far from any ecclesiastical weight. While he shared with emergent Protestantism a critical view of scholasticism and monasticism, his views led John Calvin to attack him in 1550. Because of his literary power and historical importance, Western literary critics consider him one of the great writers of world literature and among the creators of modern European writing. His best known work is Gargantua and Pantagruel, tales with their giant characters, heroic-comic parody, epics and novels of chivalry, but which also prefigure the realist, satirical and philosophical novel, and are considered to be one of the first forms of the modern novel. His literary legacy is such that the word Rabelaisian has been coined as a descriptive inspired by his work and life. Merriam-Webster defines the word as describing someone or something that is "marked by gross robust humor, extravagance of caricature, or bold naturalism".

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1. francois rabelais

   Francois Rabelais was a French Renaissance writer, physician and Renaissance humanist, best known for his comedic and satirical novels "Gargantua" and "Pantagruel." These works, often censored for their bawdy humor and unorthodox ideas, are seen as forerunners of the modern novel. Rabelais often used humor, exaggeration, and parody to criticize established authority and express his humanistic ideals. His writings have been significant in literature and thought, and have influenced writers and thinkers such as William Shakespeare, Sir Thomas More and Voltaire. He was born in the late 15th or early 16th century and died in 1553.

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1. François Rabelais

   François Rabelais was a major French Renaissance writer, doctor, Renaissance humanist, monk and Greek scholar. He has historically been regarded as a writer of fantasy, satire, the grotesque, bawdy jokes and songs. His best known work is Gargantua and Pantagruel. Rabelais is considered one of the great writers of world literature and among the creators of modern European writing.

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1. François Rabelais

   Famous and witty French satirist and philosopher, born Chinon, Touraine, 7 Jan. 1495. At an early age he joined the order of Franciscans, but finding monastic life incompatible with his genial temper, quitted the convent without the leave of his superior. He studied medicine at Montpelier about 1530, after which he practised at Lyons. His great humorous work, published anonymously in 1535, was denounced as heretical by the clergy for its satires, not only on their order but their creed. The author was protected by Francis I. and was appointed curé of Meudon. Died at Paris, 9 April, 1553. His writings show surprising fertility of mind, and Coleridge says, “Beyond a doubt he was among the deepest as well as boldest thinkers of his age.”

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