sentences:  Du Fail is best known today for being one of the principal French story writers of the Renaissance, and especially as the author of the "Propos rustiques" (1547), a work which describes the life of two villages near Rennes (Vindelles and Flameaux) and, through the memories of four old peasants, gives portraits of some of their memorable inhabitants.Alternating between a bucolic portrait and Rabelaisian humor, the complex, linguistically rich and often satirical work defies easy interpretation.It is also one of the few works of the period to be entirely centered on peasant life.