François Rabelais
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François Rabelais was a French writer who has been called the first great French prose author. A humanist of the French Renaissance and Greek scholar, he attracted opposition from both Protestant theo
Francois Rabelais Portrait
Rabelais worked at the hospital Hôtel-Dieu de Lyon from 1532 to 1535.
Rabelais' three trips to Rome were under the protection of Jean du Bellay.
The house of François Rabelais in Metz
Gustave Doré
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Paul Gustave Louis Christophe Doré was a French printmaker, illustrator, painter, comics artist, caricaturist, and sculptor. He is best known for his prolific output of wood-engravings illustrating cl
François Rabelais
…resigned from the curacy in January 1553 and died in Paris later that year. Novels Gargantua and Pantagruel Illustration for Gargantua and Pantagruel by Gustave Doré Illustration for Gargantua and Pantagruel by Gustave Doré Gargantua and Pantagruel relates the adventures of Gargantua and his son Pantagruel. The tales…
Doré photographed by Nadar, c. 1856-58
Gustave dore signature
Doré by Carolus-Duran (1877)
d'Artagnan on Doré's monument to Alexandre Dumas, père in Paris