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rabelais, françois

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Ra·be·lais   (rāb'ə-lā', rāb'ə-lā', räb-lě')   
French humanist and writer of satirical attacks on medieval scholasticism and superstition, most notably Pantagruel (1532) and Gargantua (1534).
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Rabelais, François [(frahnn-swah rab-uh-lay, rab-uh-lay)]

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

Note: “Rabelaisian” humor is grotesque and bawdy.
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