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Thérèse philosophe, ou, Mémoires pour servir à l'histoire de D. Dirrag, & de Mademoiselle Éradice
- Author
- Argens, Jean-Baptiste de Boyer, marquis d', 1704-1771
- Title
- Thérèse philosophe, ou, Mémoires pour servir à l'histoire de D. Dirrag, & de Mademoiselle Éradice.
- Format
- Book
- Edition
- Nouvelle édition, augmentée d'un plus grand nombre de figures que toutes les précédentes
- Translated title
- Thérèse the philosopher
- Published
- À Londres : [Cazin], 1785.
- Description
- 2 v. (161 p., [6] leaves of plates; 80 p., [10] leaves of plates) : 16 ill. ; 14 cm. (18mo in twelves and sixes)
- Other contributors
- Montigny, Xavier d'Arles de. Borel, Antoine, 1743-1810.
- Other title
- Mémoires pour servir à l'histoire de D. Dirrag, & de Mademoiselle Éradice Thérèse philosophe avec l'histoire de Madame Bois-Laurier
- Notes
- Illustrations by Antoine Borel. Cf. Pia. An additional 16 extra illustrations by an unknown artist were pasted to back of plates at a later date. Novel based on the Girard-Cadière case; Dirrag and Eradice are anagrams of the names. Attributed to J.B. de Boyer, Marquis d'Argens. Also attributed to Xavier d'Arles de Montigny. V. 2: Thérèse philosophe, avec l'histoire de Madame Bois-Laurier. Publisher from Pia. Ordered destroyed by the Tribunal correctionnel de la Seine, June 6, 1822 and Feb. 25, 1825. Includes historical preface. Includes bibliographical references. Bound in morocco.
- References
- Ria, col. 1319. Bilder-Lexicon der Erotik, v. 2, p. 841. BN, 1960-69, v. 3, col. 1096. Gay, v. 3, col. 1211.
- Kinsey subjects
- Religious sex ethics. Anticlericalism. Petting. Coitus interruptus.
- Genre heading
- Fiction.