The Life of Gargantua and of Pantagruel ( in French, La vie de Gargantua et de Pantagruel ) is a connected series of five novels written in the 16th century by François Rabelais.

* Rabelais et les traditions populaires en Acadie-1971

He became friends around this time with a fellow physician, François Rabelais, who later wrote La vie de Gargantua et Pantagruel in which Rondelet is satirised under the thinly disguised alias of " Rondibilis ".

Among his minor productions are an opera, Pomponin on le tuteur mystifié ( 1777 ); La Satire des satires ( 1778 ); De l ' autorité de Rabelais dans la revolution présente ( 1791 ); De M. Neckar ( 1795 ); Fables nouvelles ( 1810 ); Fables inédites ( 1814 ).

The title of the book is a reference to a sentence by French writer François Rabelais, who famously wrote in Pantagruel: " one half of the world does not know how the other half lives " (" la moitié du monde ne sait pas comment l ' autre vit ").

1 .↑ Coquebert de Mombret: Essai d ' un travail sur la géographie de la langue française, in Mélanges ..., 1831: « although the inhabitants of Upper Brittany ( to whom the breton-speaking Bretons give the name " Gallots ") do not speak a really pure French, we can not put theirs at the level of the strictly speaking patois, because the expressions that characterises it can be found in the works of the 15th and 16th century authors like Rabelais.

1 .↑ Coquebert de Mombret: Essai d ' un travail sur la géographie de la langue française, in Mélanges ..., 1831: « although the inhabitants of Upper Brittany ( to whom the Breton-speaking Bretons give the name " Gallots ") do not speak a really pure French, we can not put theirs at the level of the strictly speaking patois, because the expressions that characterises it can be found in the works of the 15th and 16th century authors like Rabelais.

London 1982, ( Le problème de l ' incroyance au 16e siècle: la religion de Rabelais.

While the first English usage of the term was in 1603, by Shakespeare in Othello (" I am one, sir, that comes to tell you your daughter and the Moor are now making the beast with two backs "), the French translation of the term, la bête à deux dos, dates back to at least 1532, in François Rabelais ' Gargantua and Pantagruel:

The Renaissance writer François Rabelais ( b. 1494 ) helped to shape French as a literary language, Rabelais ' French is characterised by the re-introduction of Greek and Latin words.

Ockham and his works have been discussed as a possible influence on several late medieval literary figures and works, especially Geoffrey Chaucer, but also Jean Molinet, the Gawain Poet, François Rabelais, John Skelton, Julian of Norwich, the York and Townely Plays, and Renaissance romances.

* April 9 – François Rabelais, French Renaissance writer ( d. 1553 )

* François Rabelais, ( c. 1493-1553 ), was a major French Renaissance writer, doctor and humanist

François Rabelais (; c. 1494 – 9 April 1553 ) was a major French Renaissance writer, doctor, Renaissance humanist, monk and Greek scholar.

Timothy Hampton writes that " to a degree unequaled by the case of any other writer from the European Renaissance, the reception of Rabelais's work has involved dispute, critical disagreement, and ... scholarly wrangling ..." But at present, " whatever controversy still surrounds Rabelais studies can be found above all in the application of feminist theories to Rabelais criticism ".

Renaissance humorist François Rabelais jokingly refers to a book titled On the Dignity of Codpieces in the foreword to his book The Histories of Gargantua and Pantagruel.

During World War II Bakhtin submitted a dissertation on the French Renaissance writer François Rabelais which was not defended until some years later.

Thus, due to its content, Rabelais and Folk Culture of the Middle Ages and Renaissance was not published until 1965, at which time it was given the title, Rabelais and His World.

A classic of Renaissance studies, in Rabelais and His World Bakhtin explores Rabelais ’ Gargantua and Pantagruel.

The character is reminiscent of those from the Renaissance tales of Francois Rabelais.

Writers and humanists such as Rabelais, Pierre de Ronsard and Desiderius Erasmus were greatly influenced by the Italian Renaissance model and were part of the same intellectual movement.

Rabelais Student Media is a student newspaper at La Trobe University, Melbourne, Australia, named for French Renaissance writer François Rabelais.

* François Rabelais, a major French Renaissance writer, doctor and humanist

The multiplicity of readings in certain texts has been compared to 15th century polyphonic music from the Burgundian School and Franco-Flemish School ( such as the music of Ockeghem ), and their fascination with " copia ", verbal games and the difficulties of interpretation link them to such Renaissance figures as Erasmus and Rabelais.

* In France the moment at a restaurant when the waiter presents the bill is still sometimes called le quart d ' heure de Rabelais, in memory of a famous trick Rabelais used to get out of paying a tavern bill when he had no money.

According to Rabelais, the philosophy of his giant Pantagruel, " Pantagruelism ", is rooted in " a certain gaiety of mind pickled in the scorn of fortuitous things " ( French: " une certaine gaîté d ' esprit confite dans le mépris des choses fortuites ").

The idea was then taken up in France and was first advocated in scholarly detail when the Rabelais expert Abel Lefranc published his 1918 book Sous le masque de William Shakespeare: William Stanley, VIe comte de Derby.

Tours is home to François Rabelais University, the site of one of the most important choral competitions, called Florilège Vocal de Tours International Choir Competition, and is a member city of the European Grand Prix for Choral Singing.

Additionally some sources examined for Rabelais ’ last words cite Cardinal du Bellay ; others cite Cardinal de Chatillon creating further confusion.

* Honoré de Balzac was inspired by the works of Rabelais to write Les Cent Contes Drolatiques ( The Hundred Humorous Tales ).

Concordance des Oeuvres de François Rabelais.

* Rabelais, Francis de Sales and the Abbaye de Thélème by Alexander T. Pott, O. S.

* Nasier. net, Liste de discussion Rabelais, / A French website about Rabelais

Petrarch popularized the sonnet as a poetic form ; Giovanni Boccaccio's Decameron made romance acceptable in prose as well as poetry ; François Rabelais rejuvenates satire with Gargantua and Pantagruel ; Michel de Montaigne single-handedly invented the essay and used it to catalog his life and ideas.

With other poets like Mellin de Saint-Gelais and Brodeau, with prose writers like François Rabelais and Bonaventure des Périers, he was always on excellent terms.

Rabelais ( Pantagruel, IV, 9 ) mentions an homelaicte d ' oeufs, Olivier de Serres an amelette, François Pierre La Varenne's Le cuisinier françois ( 1651 ) has aumelette, and the modern omelette appears in Cuisine bourgoise ( 1784 ).

Meanwhile Marguerite de Navarre, the sister of Francis I, herself a poet, novelist and religious mystic, gathered around her and protected a circle of vernacular poets and writers, including Clément Marot, Pierre de Ronsard and François Rabelais.

Among the writers who lived in Saint-Maur are: François Rabelais, La Rochefoucauld, Boileau, Raymond Radiguet, Madame de Sévigné, Madame de La Fayette, Victor Hugo, Alexandre Dumas, père and ‘ Quo Vadis ’ author Henryk Sienkiewicz.

Of the 4, 000 students who attended it at the time, some were to become famous: Joachim Du Bellay, Jean-Louis Guez de Balzac, François Rabelais, René Descartes, Francis Bacon, and Scévole de Sainte Marthe, to name but a few.

The following authors are quoted ( in order of their appearance in the book ): Anne Frank, Alfred Tennyson, Rudyard Kipling, John Masefield, William Cullen Bryant, Ambrose Bierce, Lord Byron, Noble Claggett, John Greenleaf Whittier, Benjamin Franklin, John Heywood, Cesare Bonesana Beccaria, Bertolt Brecht, Saint John, Charles Dickens, Isaac Watts, William Shakespeare, Plato, Robert Browning, Jean de La Fontaine, François Rabelais, Patrick R. Chalmers, Michel de Montaigne, Joseph Conrad, George William Curtis, Samuel Butler, T. S. Eliot, A. E. Housman, Oscar Hammerstein II, Edgar Allan Poe, Charles E. Carryl, Samuel Johnson, Thomas Carlyle, Edward Lear, Henry David Thoreau, Sophocles, Robert Frost, and Charles Darwin.

Colonna's work was a great influence on the Franciscan monk François Rabelais, who in the 16th century, used Thélème, the French form of the word, as the name of a fictional Abbey in his novels, Gargantua and Pantagruel.

François Rabelais gives tarau as the name of one of the games played by Gargantua in his Gargantua and Pantagruel ; this is likely the earliest attestation of the French form of the name.

The 16th century French satirical writer François Rabelais, in Chapter XIII of Book 1 of his novel-sequence Gargantua and Pantagruel, has his character Gargantua investigate a great number of ways of cleansing oneself after defecating.

* April 9 – François Rabelais, French writer

Impressed by Proudhon's corrections of one of his Latin manuscripts, Fallot sought out his friendship, and the two were soon regularly spending their evenings together discussing French literature by Montaigne, Rabelais, Rousseau, Voltaire, Diderot, and many other authors to whom Proudhon had not been exposed during his years of theological readings.

French satirist François Rabelais wrote in Gargantua and Pantagruel that a swan's neck was the best toilet paper he had encountered.

However, after the king's death, Rabelais was frowned upon by the academic elite, and the French Parliament suspended the sale of his fourth book.

Rabelais is arguably one of the authors who has enriched the French language in the most significant way.

* In Jean-Marie Gustave Le Clézio's 2008 Nobel Prize lecture, Le Clézio referred to Rabelais as ".... the greatest writer in the French language ".

* François Rabelais Museum on the Internet ( French )

* Henry Émile Chevalier, Rabelais and his editors, 1868 ( French ).

* Laurent Gerbier, " Un chien sans maître " ( A Dog Without His Master ), Lucien Febvre and the Athism of Rabelais ( French )

The catholicity of his literary appreciation, was soon displayed by the works which proceeded from his press: ancient and modern, sacred and secular, from the New Testament in Latin to Rabelais in French.