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There has been no
tampering with them, no forgery. On the contrary, there is in each
a difference, a very marked personality. Leonard Gaultier, who
published this engraving towards the end of the sixteenth century,
reproduced a great many portraits besides from chalk drawings, in
the style of his master, Thomas de Leu. It must have been such
drawings that were the originals of those portraits which he alone
has issued, and which may therefore be as authentic and reliable as
the others whose correctness we are in a position to verify.
Now Rabelais has here nothing of the Roger Bontemps of low
degree about him. His features are strong, vigorously cut, and
furrowed with deep wrinkles; his beard is short and scanty; his
cheeks are thin and already worn-looking. On his head he wears the
square cap of the doctors and the clerks, and his dominant
expression, somewhat rigid and severe, is that of a physician and a
scholar. And this is the only portrait to which we need atta
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