Renaissance and Reformation Biographies | François Rabelais Biography

c. 1494
Chinon, France
1553
Chinon, France?

French humanist, physician, and prose satirist

"It is quite a common and vulgar thing among humans to understand, foresee, know and predict the troubles of others. But oh what a rare thing it is to predict, know, foresee and understand one's own troubles."

François Rabelais as quoted in Bartlett's Quotations. [Online] Available http://www.bartleby.com/66/45/45745.html, April 5, 2002.

The French humanist, physician, and author François Rabelais is acclaimed as a comic genius. He published several works, but he is best known for Gargantua and Pantagruel.