François Rabelais

François Rabelais (c. 1494-1553) was a major French Renaissance writer, doctor and humanist. He was regarded as an avant-garde writer of fantasy, satire, the grotesque, dirty jokes and bawdy songs.

François Rabelais in Atlantis
Victor Radcliff and Custis Cawthorne paraphrased François Rabelais in their verbal sparring match when Radcliff delivered a manuscript to Cawthorne in 1775.