Abstract: The contemporaneous reception of Rabelais’s work has been little studied. Not long ago, Marcel de Grève proposed a study of its reception, but this is yet to be completed. The object of this article is to insist on the contribution of Rabelais’s work to French lexicography by studying a reader of the Pantagruel accounts at the end of the 1530s. The lawyer Wolfgang Hunger’s reading deserves to be studied as a contemporaneous (or slightly earlier) account of Robert Estienne’s analysis.
