After you finish Chaucer and Rabelais?
Now that you ask, I've never found CANTERBURY TALES much fun, and I think GARGANTUA AND PANTAGRUEL are impossible. However, 19th-Century French authors Dumas, Balzac, Flaubert and Zola have much more appeal to me than Thackeray, Collins, and Scott. I think the only 19th-Century British novelists I really enjoy are Dickens and Austen.
On another note, you might enjoy an Arlen-Gewrshwin-Harburg song from LIFE BEGINS AT 8:40 called Quarter Erotica or "Rabelais, deMaupassant, Boccaccio, and Balzac."