He is no more Panurge than Louis XII.

is Gargantua or Francis I.Pantagruel.

Rabelais says what he wants, all he wants, and in the way he wants.

There are no mysteries below the surface, and it is a waste of time to look for knots in a bulrush.

All the historical explanations are purely imaginary, utterly without proof, and should the more emphatically be looked on as baseless and dismissed.