Finally a door that opens wide, in great work of Rabelais. The perfection of the translation into modern French, the abundance of notes on the left pages allow you to enter in the texts of Rabelais explanations, references, explanations accessible to contemporaries of Rabelais is a painstaking task, they give the full extent, the wealth of knowledge of Rabelais. Without them we go through in these works do pervant a part. It's a wonderful job.