François Rabelais - Place Anatole France (Tours, France)
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The depicted stone statue of prominent French Renaissance writer and poet François Rabelais you can find in a small park near Loire river in Place Anatole France.
Waymark Code: WME6C7
Location: Centre-Val-de-Loire, France
Date Posted: 04/09/2012
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The depicted stone statue of prominent French Renaissance writer and poet François Rabelais you can find in a small park near Loire river in Place Anatole France.
The marble statue is work of French sculptor Etienne Henri Dumaige from 1880. Statue is over 3 m high (approx. 2× life size), showing standing Rabelais with slightly ironic smile in his face, weared in traditional Renaissance monk cassock and holding manuscript in the left and quill in the right hand.
François Rabelais (1494–1553) was a major French Renaissance writer, doctor, Renaissance humanist, monk and Greek scholar. He has historically been regarded as a writer of fantasy, satire, the grotesque, bawdy jokes and songs. His best known work is Gargantua and Pantagruel. [wiki]