Francois Rabelais

n. (c.1490-1553) French writer, author of "Gargantua" and "Pantagruel"

François Rabelais (c. 1494 - April 9, 1553) was a major French Renaissance writer, doctor and humanist. He is regarded as an avant-garde writer of fantasy, satire, the grotesque, dirty jokes and bawdy songs.
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Noun
1. author of satirical attacks on medieval scholasticism (1494-1553)
(synonym) Rabelais
(hypernym) satirist, ironist, ridiculer

n. Francois Rabelais (c.1490-1553), French writer, author of "Gargantua" and "Pantagruel"