François rabelais pronunciation
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Francois Rabelais - Encyclopedia
FRANCOIS RABELAIS (c. 1490-1553), French humorist, was born at Chinon on the Vienne in the province of Touraine. The date of his birth is wholly uncertain: it has been put by tradition, and by authorities long subsequent to his death, as 1483, 1490, and 1495. There is nothing in the positive facts of his life which would not suit tolerably well with any of these dates; most 17th-century authorities give the earliest, and this also accords best with the age of the eldest of the Du Bellay brothers, with whom Rabelais was (perhaps) at school. In favour of the latest it is urged that, if Rabelais was born in 1483, he must have been forty-seven when he entered at Montpellier, and proportionately and unexpectedly old at other known periods of his life. In favour of the middle date, which has, as far as recent authorities are concerned, the weight of consent in its favour, the testimony of Guy Patin (1601-1672), a witness of some merit and not too far removed in point of time, is invoked. The only contribution which need be made here to the controv
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Rabelais and his house
A Renaissance Humanist and writer, François Rabelais spent his childhood in La Devinière, a “house in the fields” in Seuilly near Chinon. The environment of his birthplace inspired him when he came to write Gargantua.
La Devinière
Rabelais was born in the late 15th century on a farm called La Devinière. He grew up in this rustic home built by his father, a lawyer at the royal seat of Chinon. The author found inspiration in the vineyards around La Devinière for his first novel Gargantua. The famous scholar is one of the few writers to have a region named after him: La Rabelaisie.
La Devinière is 7 km away from Chinon and listed as a historic monument. The Rabelais birthplace is the only museum devoted to this major figure in French literature and is constantly being renewed. Around the 15th century house are a series of remarkable buildings, including a dovecot, a water well sheltered by a vault, a stable, troglodyte caves and the winemaker’s house. There is a garden, an orchard and vineyards near the farm.
Journey to Rabelaisie
The hilly landscapes
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Gargantua and Pantagruel
"Gargantua" and "Pantagruel" redirect here. For other uses, see Gargantua (disambiguation) and Pantagruel (ensemble).
16th-century novels by François Rabelais
Title-page of a c. 1532 edition of Pantagruel | |
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| Author | François Rabelais ("Alcofribas Nasier") |
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| Original title | Les Cinq livres des faits et dits de Gargantua et Pantagruel |
| Translator | Thomas Urquhart, Peter Anthony Motteux |
| Illustrator | Gustave Doré (1854 edition) |
| Country | France |
| Language | Classical French |
| Genre | Satire |
| Published | c. 1532 – c. 1564 |
| Published in English | 1693–1694 |
| No. of books | 5 |
The Five Books of the Lives and Deeds of Gargantua and Pantagruel (French: Les Cinq livres des faits et dits de Gargantua et Pantagruel), often shortened to Gargantua and Pantagruel or the Cinq Livres (Five Books),[1] is a pentalogy of n
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