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François Rabelais
François Rabelais's creative exuberance, colorful and wide-ranging vocabulary, and literary variety, as displayed in Gargantua and Pantagruel, earned him a lasting place in the history of French literature.
The Quart livre (Fourth Book) by François Rabelais was published in two stages:
- 1548: An incomplete version of the Quart livre was printed, which famously ended in the middle of a sentence.1
- 1552: The full version, titled Quart livre des faits et dits héroïques du noble Pantagruel, was published with a new prologue.1