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François Rabelais

Born

in Chinon, France

July 05, 1492

Died

September 21, 1552

Genre

Fiction, Humor and Comedy

Influences

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French humanist François Rabelais wrote satirical attacks, most notably Pantagruel (1532) and Gargantua (1534), on medieval scholasticism and superstition.

People historically regarded this major Renaissance doctor of fantasy, satire, the grotesque, bawdy jokes, and songs. Considered of the great of world literature, he created modern Europe. He also published under the names Alcofribas Nasier and Séraphin Calobarsy.

François Rabelais était un des grand écrivains de la Renaissance française, médecin et humaniste. Il a toujours été considéré comme un écrivain de fantaisie, de satire, de grotesque et à la fois de blagues et de chansons de débauche. Rabelais est considéré comme l'un des grands écrivains de la littérature mondiale et par ...more

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François Rabelais’s books

Average rating: 3.53 · 24,232 ratings · 1,131 reviews · 1,138 distinct works • Similar authors

	Gargantua and Pantagruel 3.66 avg rating — 15,535 ratings — published 1532 — 707 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Gargantua by François Rabelais, Paul Bailey (Foreword) 3.24 avg rating — 4,460 ratings — published 1534 — 264 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Pantagruel by François Rabelais, Michelet (Foreword) 3.57 avg rating — 2,424 ratings — published 1532 — 136 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Gargantua by François Rabelais, Florian Pennanech 2.38 avg rating — 584 ratings — 3 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Le Tiers Livre 3.42 avg rating — 172 ratings — published 1546 — 87 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Le Quart Livre 3.33 avg rating — 176 ratings — published 1552 — 72 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Complete Works of François Rabelais 4.28 avg rating — 120 ratings — published 1534 — 248 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Gargantua - Bac 2025: Parcours : rire et savoir, la bonne éducation 2.75 avg rating — 181 ratings	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Gargantua and Pantagruel, Book 1 by François Rabelais, Gustave Doré (Illustrator), Peter Anthony Motteux (Translator) 3.64 avg rating — 122 ratings — published 1532 — 72 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Gargantua and Pantagruel, Volume 2 3.66 avg rating — 68 ratings — 67 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars

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Series by François Rabelais

Gargantua and Pantagruel (5 books)
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François Rabelais,

Guy Demerson (traduction et notes)

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Quotes by François Rabelais (?)

“I go to seek a Great Perhaps.”
― François Rabelais

tags: death, french-renaissance-writer, john-green, last-words, life, looking-for-alaska, meaning-of-life, miles-halter

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“Seeing how sorrow eats you, defeats you.
I'd rather write about laughing than crying,
For laughter makes men human, and courageous.”
― Francois Rabelais, Gargantua and Pantagruel

113 likes

“Science without conscience is the soul's perdition.”
― Francois Rabelais, Pantagruel

tags: conscience, science

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Polls

November 2014 Old School Classic Poll

Which book would you like to read for our November 2014 Old School Classic Group Read?

1859, A Tale of Two Cities by Charles Dickens, 489 pages

28 votes, 20.7%

1842, Dead Souls by Nikolai Gogol, 464 pages

24 votes, 17.8%

1872, Middlemarch by George Eliot, 904 pages

14 votes, 10.4%

1896, The Island of Dr. Moreau by H.G. Wells, 157 pages

12 votes, 8.9%

1831, The Hunchback of Notre-Dame by Victor Hugo, 614 pages

12 votes, 8.9%

1774, The Sorrows of Young Werther by Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, 149 pages

10 votes, 7.4%

1874, Far from the Madding Crowd by Thomas Hardy, 480 pages

9 votes, 6.7%

1889, A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court by Mark Twain, 480 pages

9 votes, 6.7%

1764, The Castle of Otranto by Horace Walpole, 125 pages

7 votes, 5.2%

1833, Eugénie Grandet by Honoré de Balzac, 200 pages

3 votes, 2.2%

1795, Wilhelm Meister's Apprenticeship by Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, 396 pages

3 votes, 2.2%

1874, The Temptation of St. Antony by Gustave Flaubert, 304 pages

2 votes, 1.5%

1885, Juan de La Rosa: Memoirs of the Last Soldier of the Independence Movement by Nataniel Aguirre, 368 pages

1 vote, 0.7%

1834, Père Goriot by Honoré de Balzac, 370 pages

1 vote, 0.7%

1532, Gargantua and Pantagruel by François Rabelais, 1088 pages

0 votes, 0.0%

135 total votes

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