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François Rabelais

1494 - 1553

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François Rabelais (UK: RAB-ə-lay, US: -⁠LAY, French: [fʁɑ̃swa ʁablɛ]; born between 1483 and 1494; died 1553) 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 John Calvin and the hierarchy of the Catholic Church. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of François Rabelais has received more than 1,388,347 page views. His biography is available in 86 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 82 in 2019). François Rabelais is the 109th most popular writer (down from 89th in 2019), the 119th most popular biography from France (down from 84th in 2019) and the 25th most popular French Writer.

François Rabelais is most famous for his book Gargantua and Pantagruel.

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  • 86

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 8.05

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  • 4.55

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

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Among WRITERS

Among writers, François Rabelais ranks 109 out of 5,755. Before him are Erich Maria Remarque, Nicolas Flamel, Cato the Elder, Anatole France, Boris Pasternak, and Du Fu. After him are Samuel Beckett, Vladimir Nabokov, Federico García Lorca, Mary Shelley, François Villon, and Plautus.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1494, François Rabelais ranks 3. Before him are Suleiman the Magnificent and Francis I of France. After him are Fuzûlî, Georgius Agricola, Pontormo, Bona Sforza, Jean Parisot de Valette, Leo Africanus, Lucas van Leyden, William Tyndale, and Rosso Fiorentino. Among people deceased in 1553, François Rabelais ranks 3. Before him are Şehzade Mustafa and Edward VI of England. After him are Lucas Cranach the Elder, Şehzade Cihangir, Michael Servetus, Pedro de Valdivia, Charles III, Duke of Savoy, Girolamo Fracastoro, Maurice, Elector of Saxony, John Dudley, 1st Duke of Northumberland, and Sinan Pasha.

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In France

Among people born in France, François Rabelais ranks 119 out of 6,011. Before him are Philip II of France (1165), Anatole France (1844), Saint Sebastian (300), Rudolf Diesel (1858), Marcel Duchamp (1887), and Jacques Lacan (1901). After him are Charles XIV John of Sweden (1763), Hugh Capet (940), Jacques Chirac (1932), Louis XVIII of France (1755), Camille Saint-Saëns (1835), and Henri Poincaré (1854).

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Among WRITERS In France

Among writers born in France, François Rabelais ranks 25. Before him are Marquis de Sade (1740), Jean de La Fontaine (1621), George Sand (1804), André Gide (1869), Nicolas Flamel (1330), and Anatole France (1844). After him are François Villon (1431), Sully Prudhomme (1839), Paul Verlaine (1844), Alexandre Dumas fils (1824), Jean Cocteau (1889), and Guy de Maupassant (1850).

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