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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.
In the five-volume series of comic novels by François Rabelais, collectively titled Gargantua and Pantagruel, the two title characters are related as father and son. Specifically, the giant Gargantua is the father of Pantagruel.123