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    François Rabelais (UK: /ˈræbəleɪ/ RAB-ə-lay, US: /ˌræbəˈleɪ/ -⁠LAY, French: [fʁɑ̃swa ʁablɛ]; born between 1483 and 1494; died 1553) was a French writer...
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    logic. Colonna's work was a great influence on the Franciscan friar François Rabelais, who in the 16th century used Thélème, the French form of the word...
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    Gargantua and Pantagruel (category François Rabelais)
    (Five Books), is a pentalogy of novels written in the 16th century by François Rabelais. It tells the adventures of two giants, Gargantua (/ɡɑːrˈɡæntjuə/...
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    brutal son Cleared Rome of what most shamed him. In the Chapter XXX of François Rabelais' Pantagruel (c. 1532), Pantagruel's tutor Epistemon had his head cut...
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    rhetoric is not carried through to action. In the Chapter XXX of François Rabelais' Pantagruel (c.1532), Pantagruel's tutor Epistemon had his head cut...
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  • player and composer François Rabelais, French Renaissance writer, doctor and humanist François-Xavier Roth, French conductor François Rozenthal, French...
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    de León Christopher Marlowe Petrarch Christine de Pizan Poliziano François Rabelais Fernando de Rojas Lope de Rueda Pierre de Ronsard William Shakespeare...
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    (French: Université de Tours), formerly François Rabelais University of Tours (French: Université François Rabelais), is a public university in Tours, France...
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    known Spoonerisms were published by the 16th century by the author François Rabelais and termed contrepèteries. In his novel Pantagruel, he wrote "femme...
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    One of the members of du Bellay's suite in his embassy to Rome was François Rabelais, who was making the first of bhis four journeys to Rome. On their...
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    university in 1431, having hosted René Descartes, Joachim du Bellay and François Rabelais, among others. The centre of town is picturesque; its streets include...
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    operation, with notable alumni such as Petrarch, Nostradamus and François Rabelais. Above the medieval city, the ancient citadel of Montpellier is a...
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    only from personal experiences but from philosophy and the works of François Rabelais and R. D. Laing. In 2015 they were recognised with the lifetime achievement...
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    Bullonii epistolae et diplomata; accedunt appendices (in Latin). Raynouard, François (1813). Monuments historiques relatifs à la condamnation des chevaliers...
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  • considers a number of literary forms and individual writers, it is François Rabelais, the French Renaissance author of Gargantua and Pantagruel, and the...
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    sais quoi Jouissance Laissez les bons temps rouler Quality of life François Rabelais Thomas Nagel#Experience itself as a good Wine, women and song Shibles...
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  • Université François Rabelais. Retrieved October 14, 2008. "Groupe de Recherches Anglo-Américaines de Tours". Université François Rabelais, Tours (in French)...
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    derision showered on outlandish fashions. The Renaissance author, François Rabelais, refers satirically to a book entitled On the Dignity of Codpieces...
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  • forward by Russian literary critic Mikhail Bakhtin in his study of François Rabelais' work. The essential principle of grotesque realism is degradation...
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    Abbey (1955), now considered a lost film. The name was borrowed from François Rabelais's satire Gargantua and Pantagruel,[full citation needed] where an Abbaye...
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  • Rabelais Student Media is the current student newspaper at La Trobe University, Melbourne, Australia, named after French Renaissance writer François Rabelais...
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    Renaissance writer François Rabelais, particularly in his novel Gargantua and Pantagruel. Bakhtin argues that for centuries Rabelais's work has been misunderstood...
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    with something abstract or absent'; this appears, for example, in François Rabelais, Le Quart Livre, in 1552. This French word derives from Latin, where...
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  • antagonist, an amalgamation of spirits. The name "Gargamel" resembles François Rabelais' classic Gargantua and Pantagruel, where the giantess Gargamelle is...
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  • Paragranum. 1533 October – The censors of the Collège de Sorbonne condemn François Rabelais' Pantagruel as obscene. 1534 Luther Bible: Martin Luther's Biblia:...
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  • where he goes to seek a "Great Perhaps," the famous last words of François Rabelais. Throughout the 'Before' section of the novel, Miles and his friends...
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  • François Rabelais (c. 1494 – 1553) was a French Renaissance writer, doctor, and humanist. Rabelais may also refer to: 5666 Rabelais, a main-belt asteroid...
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  • d'Isabelle (1530) François Rabelais Pantagruel (1532) -- Boccaccio Complainte des tristes amours de Fiammette (1532) François Rabelais Gargantua (1534)...
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    Siena, the oldest humorist we[who?] know, a far-off precursor of François Rabelais and Michel de Montaigne.[citation needed] Another type of poetry also...
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  • Bear Baldwin the Ass Tibert (Tybalt) the Cat Hirsent the She-wolf François Rabelais, 1494–1553, wrote: Gargantua and Pantagruel - the story of two giants...
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