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Rabelais, François

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  1. A sixteenth-century French writer; the author of Gargantua and Pantagruel.


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“Rabelaisian” humor is grotesque and bawdy.

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Rabelais, François; biographical note on, VII, 58; articles by—Gargantua and his childhood, 58; Gargantua's education, 64; of the founding of an ideal abbey, 74.Raleigh,

From The Best of the World's Classics, Restricted to Prose, Vol. X (of X) - America - II, Index by Lodge, Henry Cabot

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