They are radically false, and therefore both worthless and harmful.
In 1840 there appeared in the Bibliotheque Charpentier the Rabelais in a single duodecimo volume, begun by Charles Labiche, and, after his death, completed by M.Paul Lacroix, whose share is the larger.

The text is that of L'Aulnaye; the short footnotes, with all their brevity, contain useful explanations of difficult words.

Amongst the editions of Rabelais this is one of the most important, because it brought him many readers and admirers.

No other has made him so well and so widely known as this portable volume, which has been constantly reprinted.

No other has been so widely circulated, and the sale still goes on.