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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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    Colonna's work was a great influence on the Franciscan friar and writer 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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    the teachings of Epictetus on her students. In the Chapter XXX of François Rabelais' Pantagruel (c. 1532), Pantagruel's tutor Epistemon had his head cut...
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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 his four journeys to Rome. On their arrival...
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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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    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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    (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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  • 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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  • player and composer François Rabelais, French Renaissance writer, doctor and humanist François-Xavier Roth, French conductor François Rozenthal, French...
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