 He became a friend of Geoffroy d'Estissac (1518–43), Bishop of Maillezais.He was gone before 1530, however, when he was at the University of Montpellier, studying medicine; by 1532 he was at the University of Poitiers, studying law.On 15 July 1532, François Rabelais, M.D., wrote to "clarissimo doctissimoque" Bishop d'Estissac, of his intention to dedicate his commentary on Hippocrates and Galen to the bishop.