Rabelais
François Rabelais (c. 1494–1553) was a French Renaissance writer, physician, and cleric whose works helped shape modern European literature. He is best known for the Gargantua and Pantagruel cycle, a sprawling, satirical narrative that blends comic fantasy, philosophical discourse, and exuberant wordplay. The first two books appeared in the early 1530s, and later editions expanded the tale, often after his death.
Born in Chinon in the province of Touraine, Rabelais studied at the University of Poitiers and pursued
Gargantua and Pantagruel tell of two giants whose adventures satirize war, politics, education, and religious authority.
Rabelais died in Paris in 1553. His novels had a profound and lasting influence on subsequent fiction,