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Le Meursius français, ou, L'académie des dames
- Author
- Chorier, Nicolas, 1612-1692.
- Preferred Title
- Satyra sotadica.
- Title
- Le Meursius français, ou, L'académie des dames.
- Format
- Book
- Published
- Amsterdam : [s.n.], 1870.
- Description
- 2 v. ; 17 cm.
- Other contributors
- Sigea, Luisa, 1530?-1560? spurious author. Meursius, Joannes, 1623-1653. Terrasson, abbé, 1670-1750.
- Other title
- Académie des dames
- Notes
- Commonly known as: Satyra sotadica. The attribution of the work to Luisa Sigea and of the translation into Latin to Joannes Meursius was an obfuscation on Chorier's part. Cf. Pia, col. 322. Imprint is false. Cf. BM. For censorship history see Bécourt, p. 52 and Libertine literature in England 1660-1745 / David Foxon. Includes: Lettre de M. l'abbé de T*** [i.e. Jean Terrasson. Cf. Pia 329, BM], traducteur à Mme. l'abbesse de ***, v. 1, p. 1-6. Fiction. Censored book.
- References
- BM, 1966-70, v. 16, col. 1042.
- Kinsey subjects
- Extramarital sex behavior--Female. Premarital sex education--Female. Chastity belts--Female.