Greek, a study discountenanced by the Church, which looked on it as dangerous and tending to freethought and heresy, took possession of him.

To it he owed the warm friendship of Pierre Amy and of the celebrated Guillaume Bude.

In fact, the Greek letters of the latter are the best source of information concerning this period of Rabelais' life.

It was at Fontenay-le-Comte also that he became acquainted with the Brissons and the great jurist Andre Tiraqueau, whom he never mentions but with admiration and deep affection.

Tiraqueau's treatise, De legibus connubialibus, published for the first time in 1513, has an important bearing on the life of Rabelais.