Description: A delightfully illustrated literary anthology that explores the fantasies, seductions, and intrigues of the eighteenth-century French lover
Brief description: Michel Delon, professor of French literature at the Sorbonne, is the author of several studies of the eighteenth-century libertine. He has edited the works of Diderot and Sade for the Bibliotheque de la Pléiade, as well as Routledge's Encyclopedia of the Enlightenment.
Review Quotes: This work is a masterpiece.--Point De Vue