Rabelais et un lexicographe des années 1530, Wolfgang Hunger

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.