François Rabelais
François Rabelais was a French Renaissance writer, physician, Renaissance humanist, monk, and Greek scholar. He is primarily known as a writer of satire, with a penchant for grotesque and bawdy jokes and songs. Rabelais became a novice of the Franciscan order, and later a friar at Fontenay-le-Comte in Western France, where he studied Greek and Latin as well as science, philology, and law. Later he left the monastery to study medicine at the University of Poitiers and at the University of...
