François Rabelais [fʁɑ̃.swa ʁa.blɛ] (c. 1494, perhaps 1483, in La Devinière near Chinon, Touraine; † April 9, 1553, in Paris) was a French Renaissance writer, humanist, Roman Catholic friar and secular priest, practicing physician, and lecturer. He is one of the most important prose writers in French literature; of his works, the novel cycle Gargantua and Pantagruel is most well-known. Rabelais-Museum Rabelais began his novitiate as a religious priest in the Franciscan monastery Read more [...]