François Rabelais

François Rabelais was born at La Devinière, near Chinon, in 1483 or around 1494 depending on the sources, the son of Antoine Rabelais, a lawyer. After entering the Franciscans, he developed a passion for Greek, moved to the Benedictines, then studied medicine at Montpellier from 1530 and became a doctor in 1537. A physician at the Hôtel-Dieu in Lyon and protected by the du Bellay family, who took him to Italy, he saw his books condemned by the Sorbonne. He died in Paris in 1553.

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