L'École des filles
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L’Escole des Filles ou la Philosophie des dames is an erotic work of fiction described by Samuel Pepys in his famous diary. It was first published in Paris in 1655 by an anonymous writer.
Background
In the 17th century, numerous examples of pornographic or erotic literature began to circulate, mostly printed in Amsterdam, and smuggled into European states. These included École des filles, a French work printed in 1655 that is considered to be the beginnings of pornography in France. It consists of an illustrated dialogue between two women, a 16-year-old and her more worldly cousin, and their explicit discussions about sex. The author remains anonymous to this day, though a few suspected authors served light prison sentences for supposed authorship of the work. In his famous diary, Samuel Pepys records purchasing a copy for solitary reading and then burning it so that it would not be discovered by his wife; "the idle roguish book, L'escholle de filles; which I have bought in plain binding… because I resolve, as soon as I have read it, to burn it."
[1] [Apr 2007]
Notes
- Whore dialogue
- Michel Millot
- European erotica
- Libertine literature
- Académie des dames ou le meursius francais
Bibliography
- The Politics of Pornography: L'Ecole des filles, Joan Dejean.
