Rabelais François

Ra·be·lais

 (răb′ə-lā′, răb′ə-lā′, räb-lĕ′), François 1494?-1553.
French humanist and writer of satirical attacks on medieval scholasticism and superstition, most notably Pantagruel (1532) and Gargantua (1534).
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