Publisher's Synopsis
Excerpt from The Works of Francis Rabelais, Vol. 1: Translated From the French
Thus Rabelais, that greater Lucian of France, has been even worse used than that of Greece for though we know the old only by his writings, yet few fabulous stories wrong his memory, while that of Rabelais is so much abused by unkind Fame, that, to know him, it were perhaps better only to seek this modern Lucian, as we do the old, in the pictures which he has drawn of others, than in those which his care less or malicious painters have given us of him.
However, you have here the best account I could get of him neither was it without much difficulty that, out of the ruins of time, in a kingdom where it is not easy to find many books and persons that can inform us of this author, I could get together what follows; principally if we consider how little is to be found in the late French editions of his works.
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