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Excerpt from Notice Biographique sur Rabelais
Ainsi, p. 124, � propos d'une citation d'h�rodote, Tira queau remarque que le passage est omis dans la traduction de Laurent Valla, faite probablement d'apr�s un texte mu til�; mais que ce livre, le premier, a �t� traduit �l�gamment et compl�tement par Fran�ois Rabelais, de l'ordre des fr�res mineurs, dont l'habilet� consomm�e dans les deux lan gues et dans toutes les sciences est. Au-dessus de son �ge et en dehors des habitudes et des scrupules exag�r�s de son or dre (1) About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
