Though his poetic translation of the Psalms became a Protestant book, his poetry is often sensual as well as sensuous.

Though for a time absenting himself from court he re-entered it in 1536 at the same time "abjuring his errors." [Sidenote: Rabelais] Of the same group was Francis Rabelais, whose _Pantagruel_ appeared in 1532.

Though he wrote Erasmus saying that he owed all that he was to him, he in fact appropriated only the irony and mocking spirit of the humanist without his deep underlying piety.

He became a universal skeptic, and a mocker of all things.

The "esprit gaulois," beyond all others alive to the absurdities and inconsistency of things, found in him its incarnation.