Abstract: In 1945, the facsimile reproduction of the edition of the Works of Rabelais by Pierre d’Espezel was published by Mangin Publishing in Montreal thanks to a license granted in 1939 by the government of Canada. The following year, the journal Lectures tried to censor this reprint, on the grounds that Rabelais was an “abject pornographer.” Nonetheless, it was still disseminated to a certain extent, particularly by Jean Bruchési, essayist, academic and founder of the Société des écrivains canadiens.
