In the fall of 1532, Rabelais published a very different sort of text: Pantagruel, the first of the comic works to which he owes his fame. There he took up a position at a hospital, began a correspondence with Desiderius Erasmus, and published several medical texts. By the early 1530s, having first left the Franciscans for the Benedictines, and then left monastic life entirely to become a secular priest, he was a prominent physician living in Lyon, the cultural (and publishing) capital of France at that time. By 1521 he had become a priest and acquired the reputation of being both an excellent scholar of Greek and a troublemaker, as his Franciscan superiors confiscated his Greek books. 1510), studied both theology and law, and frequented or corresponded with leading humanist scholars of the day. As a young man Rabelais joined the Franciscans (c. He was born near Chinon, in the Loire valley, and refers affectionately to the region in his work. Little is known about Rabelais's early life even the year of his birth remains uncertain.
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