Francois Rabelais was born in 1484 neat the town of Chinon in western France. Little is known about his youth and the time spent at the Abbaye de Seuille, were he was sent. He became a Franciscan convent at Fontenayle-Comte. Here Rabelais heard stories that stirred his imagination. After ecclesiastical authorities of the Sorbonne started to confiscate Greek books Rabelais petitioned to Pope Clement VIII. He then received permission to leave the Franciscan order and he joined the Benedictine order. There he studied Greek, Latin, law, and astronomy, and ancient Greek medical texts. He left Abbaye de Maillezais without permission and started to study medicine, and in 1530 he became a bachelor of medicine. Rabelais wrote his famous comedy Pantagruel in 1532. Pantagruel was later followed by Rabelais book Gargantua, the father of Pantagruel. The books were extremely successful, but were condemned by the Sorbonne and the Parliament. In Lyon Rabelais...