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Policemen so cherish their status as keepers of the peace and protectors of the public that they have occasionally been known to beat to death those citizens or groups who question that status.
François Rabelais
Born: 1494
Died: April 19, 1553 (aged 59)
Bio: François Rabelais was a major French Renaissance writer, physician, Renaissance humanist, monk and Greek scholar. He has historically been regarded as a writer of fantasy, satire, the grotesque, bawdy jokes and songs.
Known for:
- Le Quart Livre (1552)
- The third book of Pantagruel (1546)
- Gargantua and Pantagruel
- The complete works of François Rabelais
- The Works Of Rabelais
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