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François Rabelais
François Rabelais 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…
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science · French writer and humanist (died 1553) · writer · physician writer · novelist · humorist · humanist · physician · librettist · satirist · also François Rabelais, Françoys Rabelais, Rabelais
Born 1 January 1494 · Died 9 April 1553 · Q131018
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2026· 1 entry
1940· 1 entry
Called him "an exceptionally perverse, morbid writer, a case for psychoanalysis"
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1929· 1 entry
Praised Rabelais, stating "Rabelais loved the bowels which Swift so malignantly hated
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1553· 7 entries
Died 1553-04-09.
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“Conheço muitos que não puderam quando deviam, porque não quiseram quando podiam.”
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“Lepiej śmiechem jest pisać niż łzami,Śmiech to szczere królestwo człowieka.”
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“Apetyt przychodzi w miarę jedzenie – powiedział Augeston; ale pragnienie ulatnia się z piciem.”
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“Kiedy piję – myślę. Kiedy myślę – piję.”
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“Ludek buntowniczego Paryża jest głupawy z przyrodzenia.”
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“Opis: słowa przypisywane Rabelais’mu jako jego ostatnia wola.”
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1530· 1 entry
Studied at University of Montpellier (1530–1530).
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1494· 1 entry
Born 1494-01-01.
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