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unusual facts about Rabelais



Albert Dubout

Dubout continued on to illustrate numerous editions of books by Boileau, Beaumarchais, Mérimée, Rabelais, Villon, Cervantes, Balzac, Racine, Voltaire, Rostand, Poe, and Courteline.

Albert Jay Nock

Nock died of leukemia in 1945, at the Wakefield, Rhode Island home of his longtime friend, Ruth Robinson, the illustrator of his 1934 book, "A Journey into Rabelais' France".

Anna Ogino

She was naturalized during elementary school, and received her undergraduate and master's degree in French literature from Keio University, as well as receiving a scholarship to Paris-Sorbonne University to study Rabelais.

Cowbell

In France, Rabelais in the mid-16th century in his Gargantua and Pantagruel makes this practice explicit, stating that,

Jean du Bellay

Rabelais's main work of this nature is the Gargantua and Pantagruel series, which contain a great deal of allegorical, suggestive messages.

Mark Anthony Carpio

At the 2006 Florilege Vocal de Tours in Tours, France, he again led the choir in winning two First Places in the Mixed Vocal Ensemble Category and Free Program Category, the Prize of University Francois Rabelais (Renaissance Program) and the Grand Prix de la Ville de Tours (making them eligible for the 2007 European Grand Prix for Choral Singing in Arezzo, Italy).

Panhypocrisiade

The poem contains a conversation between a worm and Death, the complaints of an oak tree assailed by soldiers, an argument between Martin Luther and the Devil, and a visit to Rabelais by Reason personified, among other étrangetés.

Pantagruel

Gargantua and Pantagruel, a series of novels authored by François Rabelais

Perrin Dandin

Perrin Dandin is a fictional character in the Third Book of Rabelais, who seats himself judge-wise on the first stump that offers, and passes offhand a sentence in any matter of litigation; a character who figures similarly in a comedy of Racine's, and in a fable of La Fontaine's.

The Rebel Angels

-- Maria calls Parlabane gay when talking to Hollier and he says no, he is not gay but that he is only a sodomite --> with a thundering voice, voracious appetite; Anglican priest and professor of New Testament Greek Simon Darcourt; Maria Theotoky, a graduate student researching Rabelais; Clement Hollier, a frazzled and absentminded professor; and Urquhart McVarish, a greedy and manipulative counterpoint to Hollier.

Victorian burlesque

Aristophanes, Rabelais, Geo Cruikshank, the authors of the Rejected Addresses, John Leech, Planché were all in their respective lines professors of true burlesque.


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