The most frequently reprinted work of French prose fiction in the eighteenth century with more than 350 editions in the first hundred years. Continuing into the nineteenth century,"Télémaque was reprinted roughly three times as often as the next contender, Montesquieu’s Lettres persanes.” See Richard Frautschi and Angus Martin, “French Prose Fiction Published between 1701 and 1750: A New profile of production,”Eighteenth-Century Fiction 14 (2002):745. As indicated below, there have been more than 550 editions of this 17th-century tome, without counting the translations into over twenty-five languages .