I've read The Odyssey, Vanity Fair, Don Quixote, Tristram Shandy and Tom Jones - but not Gargantua and Pantagruel - what's the question?
I do have that latter on my shelf and I browsed the intro or first few pages from the author which stuck with me, pretty ribald stuff with Rabelais (wasn't he a monk?) claiming that some pregnancies can last ten or eleven months, so, if anyone knows any recently widowed women "worth the riding" then send them his way so he nail 'em and then claim any issue were fathered by the husband.