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François Rabelais
François Rabelais's creative exuberance, colorful and wide-ranging vocabulary, and literary variety, as displayed in Gargantua and Pantagruel, earned him a lasting place in the history of French literature.
The first edition of Gargantua, a novel by François Rabelais, was likely published in 1534. While the only known copy of the first edition lacks a title page, the second edition is dated 1535.12