Editing Jean du Bellay (section)

===Appreciation===
[[File:Francois Rabelais - Portrait.jpg|thumb|180px|right|François Rabelais]]
Less resolute and reliable than his brother Guillaume, the Cardinal had brilliant qualities, and an open and free mind.<ref>Other appreciations: Fisquet, pp. 360–363.</ref> He was on the side of toleration and protected the reformers. [[Guillaume Budé]] was his friend, [[François Rabelais]] his faithful secretary and doctor; men of letters, like [[Etienne Dolet]], and the poet [[Salmon Macrin]], were indebted to him for assistance. An orator and writer of [[Latin]] verse, he left three books of graceful Latin poems (printed with Salmon Macrin's Odes, 1546, by Robert Estienne), and some other compositions, including ''Francisci Francorum regis epistola apologetica'' (1542). His voluminous correspondence, now being published, is remarkable for its verve and picturesque quality.{{sfn|Isaac|1911}}

====Du Bellay and François Rabelais====
[[Rabelais]] travelled frequently to Rome with his friend Cardinal Jean du Bellay, and lived for a short time in Turin with du Bellay's brother, Guillaume, during which François I was his patron.<ref>Picot, I. pp. 95–104.</ref> Rabelais probably spent some time in hiding, threatened by being labelled a heretic. Only the protection of du Bellay saved Rabelais after the condemnation of his novel by the Sorbonne. They put ''Gargantua and Pantagruel'' on their index in 1542, the ''Third Book'' in 1546–1547, and the ''Fourth Book'' in 1552.<ref>Amy C. Graves, "Sorbonne," in: {{cite book |author=Elizabeth A. Chesney |title=The Rabelais Encyclopedia |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=RwjWrTd5la4C&pg=PA234 |year=2004 |publisher=Greenwood Publishing Group |location=Westport CT USA |isbn=978-0-313-31034-8 |page=234}} Raymond Mauny (1977). "Rabelais et la Sorbonne," ''Les Amis de Rabelais et de la Devinière'' (Tours), 3, no. 6, 1977. pp. 252–261.</ref>

Rabelais was under scrutiny by the church due to "humanistic" nature of his writings. Rabelais's main work of this nature is the [[Gargantua and Pantagruel]] series, which contain a great deal of allegorical, suggestive messages.