Michel Millot
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Michel Millot and/or Jean L'Ange [or de Lange] were the presumed authors of L'École des Filles, ou la Philosophie des dames of 1655, also known as The School of Venus.
Censorship trials
In 1655 Michel Millot and Jean L'Ange are tried. L'Ange is fined 200 livres and is exiled from Paris for three years. Millot went into hiding and is not found before the trial so he's tried in absence and sentenced to hang (he is hung in effigy and his books are burned).
In the United Kingdom, on March 5, 1688, Joseph Streater is arrested for printing "divers obscene and lasivious bookes, one called The School of Venus, another...a Dialogue between a Marridd Lady and a Maide." Benjamin Crayle is also arrested at the same time for selling "several obscene and lascivious bookes". Streater and Crayle are found guility only for The School of Venus. Streater is fined 40 shillings and Crayle is fined 20 shillings.
The School of Venus is an English translation of L'École des Filles, ou la Philosophie des dames (Paris: 1655) 'par A.D.P.'.....not to be confused with The School of Venus by Capt Alexander Smith (Morphew, 1715) or Edmund Curll's The School of Venus (second edition, 1739). --http://www.eroticabibliophile.com/censorship_history.html [Sept 2005]
