François Rabelais
François Rabelais (circa 1483-1553) was a French Renaissance writer, physician, humanist, monk and Greek scholar. He is primarily known as author of satire and grotesque novel named Gargantua and Pantagruel.
François Rabelais Media
Rabelais worked at the hospital Hôtel-Dieu de Lyon from 1532 to 1535.
The house of François Rabelais in Metz
Titlepage of a 1571 edition containing the last three books of Pantagruel: Le Tiers Livre des Faits & Dits Heroïques du Bon Pantagruel (The Third Book of the True and Reputed Heroic Deeds of the Noble Pantagruel)
Bust of Rabelais in Meudon, where he served as Curé
Monument to Rabelais at Montpellier's Jardin des Plantes
