Samuel Pepys's purchase of L'École des filles, his pleasure derived from and the subsequent burning of it
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| :Thence homeward by coach and stopped at Martin's, my bookseller, where I saw the French book which I did think to have had for my wife to translate, called "[[L'escholle des filles]]," but when I come to look in it, it is the most bawdy, lewd book that ever I saw, rather worse than "[[Putana errante]]," so that I was ashamed of reading in it, and so away home.[http://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Diary_of_Samuel_Pepys/1668/January#13th] | :Thence homeward by coach and stopped at Martin's, my bookseller, where I saw the French book which I did think to have had for my wife to translate, called "[[L'escholle des filles]]," but when I come to look in it, it is the most bawdy, lewd book that ever I saw, rather worse than "[[Putana errante]]," so that I was ashamed of reading in it, and so away home.[http://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Diary_of_Samuel_Pepys/1668/January#13th] | ||
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| + | :Thence away to the Strand, to my bookseller's, and there staid an hour, and bought the idle, rogueish book, "[[L'escholle des filles]];" which I have bought in plain binding, avoiding the buying of it better bound, because I resolve, as soon as I have read it, to burn it, that it may not stand in the list of books, nor among them, to disgrace them if it should be found. | ||
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In 1668 Samuel Pepys picked up a copy of an early erotic novel L'École des filles. Having read it and pleasured himself, he threw the "idle roguish book" on the fire.
January 13th, 1668
- Thence homeward by coach and stopped at Martin's, my bookseller, where I saw the French book which I did think to have had for my wife to translate, called "L'escholle des filles," but when I come to look in it, it is the most bawdy, lewd book that ever I saw, rather worse than "Putana errante," so that I was ashamed of reading in it, and so away home.[1]
February 8 1668
- Thence away to the Strand, to my bookseller's, and there staid an hour, and bought the idle, rogueish book, "L'escholle des filles;" which I have bought in plain binding, avoiding the buying of it better bound, because I resolve, as soon as I have read it, to burn it, that it may not stand in the list of books, nor among them, to disgrace them if it should be found.
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