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 for his depictions of the grotesque, and for his larger-than-life characters.
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Trending topics shown first"Come, pluck up a good heart; speak the truth and shame the devil."
"He freshly and cheerfully asked him how a man should kill time."
"Subject to a kind of disease, which at that time they called lack of money."
"In end, this free goodwill and simple meaning of the Canarians wrought such tenderness in my father's heart that he could not abstain from shedding tears, and wept most profusely; then, by choice word…"
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