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François Rabelais
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Introduction
Early life
From accusations of heresy to becoming a doctor
First novel
La vie inestimable du grand Gargantua
Le tiers livre
Le quart livre
and final years
An analysis of
Gargantua and Pantagruel
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François Rabelais
François Rabelais's creative exuberance, colorful and wide-ranging vocabulary, and...
From
Oeuvres de maitre François Rabelais: avec des remarques historiques et critiques de Mr. Le Duchat
(A. Amsterdam: Chez Jean Frederic Bernard, 1741)
A scourge of lawyers and medical charlatans
François Rabelais, shown here in a 17th-century painting, used his
Gargantua...
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