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6 • Foreword: Libertine Love by Marilyn Yalom 9 • Introduction by Michel Delon

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20 Robert Challes, Illustrious French Women 28 Alain-Rene Lesage, The Adventures of Gil Bias 35 • Pierre de Marivaux, The Life of Marianne 43 • Pierre de Marivaux, The Parvenu Peasant 48 Claude de Crebillon, The Wayward Head and Heart Samuel Richardson, Clarissa 58 Charles Pinot Duclos, Memoirs to Serve as a History of the Customs of the Eighteenth Century 63 Claude de Crebillon, The Opportunities of a Night 68 Lancelot Voisin de La Popeliniere, Tableaux of the Customs of the Day 75 Retif de la Bretonne, Fanchette's Foot 78 • Claude Joseph Dorat, The Fatal Effects of Inconstancy 84 • , Jacques the Fatalist and His Master 92 • Choderlos de Laclos, Dangerous Liaisons 96 • Anonymous, The French Messalina

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io6-Antoine Galland, The Thousand and One Nights 115 • , Persian Letters 122- Claude de Crebillon, The Sofa 134-Anne Gabriel Meusnierde Querlon, Psaphion, or the Courtesan of Smyrna 136-, Candide, or Optimism

Jean Raoux (1677—1734) • ( 3. SAVOIR-VIVRE, OR PLAYING THE GAME ) • Silence, or Woman at the Window Pulling Back a Curtain, 1728 145 • Anthony Hamilton, Memoirs of the Comte de Grammont Oil on canvas, 49% X jyYs in. 152- Pierre de Marivaux, The Double Inconstancy (126X95 cm) Musee Calvet, Avignon, 157- Pierre de Marivaux, The Game of Love and Chance France 162-Montesquieu, The Temple of Gnidus 167- Claude de Crebillon, The Sylph Page 2 Michel Barthelemy Ollivier 175 • Charles Pinot Duclos, Confessions of the Comte de (1712-1784) 179- Jean Galli de Bibiena, The Doll Fete Galante in a Park, 182- Claude Godart d'Aucourt, Themidore 18th century 189- Jean-Baptiste Guillard de Servigne, The Bells Oil on Canvas Musee des Beaux-Arts, 195 • Jean-Francois de Bastide, The Little House Valenciennes, France

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202 • Anne Claude Philippe de Tubieres, Comte de Caylus, 370- Charles Francois Pannard, The Glass Trials of Love in The Four Elements 375 • Voltaire, The Worldling 208 • Antoine Francois Prevost, Manon Lescaut 380- Gabriel Charles de Lattaignant, Maxims of Coquetry 215 • Andre Franfois Boureau-Deslandes, Pygmalion, or the 382- Gabriel Charles de Lattaignant, The Word and the Thing Statue Brought to Life 386-Paul Desforgues-Maillard, Tobacco 220- Jacques Rochette de La Morliere, Angola 389 • Pierre Joseph Bernard, known as Gentil-Bernard, The Art 225 • Jean-Jacques Rousseau,/w/ze, or the New Heloise of Loving 230 • Andrea de Nerciat, Felicia, or My Escapades 394- Anonymous, Malbrookls Off to War 234- Beaumarchais (Pierre Augustin Caron), The Marriage 396-Beaumarchais, Che'rubin's Romance, from The Marriage of Figaro of Figaro 239- Bernardin de Saint-Pierre, Paul and Virginia 400- Claude Joseph Dorat, The Kisses 244- Dominique Vivant Denon, No Tomorrow 406 • Alexandre Frederic Jacques Masson de Pezay, Zelis at Her Bath • C 5. IDEAS J • 410- Nicolas Germain Leonard, The Storm 412- Barthelemy Imbert, New Fables 252- Remond de Saint-Mard, New Dialogues of the Gods 417- Philippe Fabre d'Eglantine, Hospitality 256- Georges Louis Leclerc, Comte de Buffon, The Natural 420- Antoine de Bertin, The Loves History of Man 422 • Evariste Parny, Erotic Poems 264- Julien Offray de La Mettrie, The Art of Enjoyment 431 • Jean-Pierre Claris de Florian, The Pleasures of Love 271 • Jean-Jacques Rousseau, Emile, or On Education 432- Andre Chenier, Bucolics 277- Denis Diderot, Encyclopedie 281 • Denis Diderot, Salon of ij6y • < 8. SECRET CABINET ) • 284- Denis Diderot, D'Alembert's Dream 288 • Retif de La Bretonne, The Pornographer 438 • Alexis Piron, Ode to Priapus 292 • Louis Sebastien Mercier, Picture of Paris 442 • Jean-Charles Gervaise de Latouche, The Story of Brother 297- Nicolas Chamfort, Maxims and Thoughts Bugger 302- The , Philosophy in the Bedroom 450- Anne Gabriel Meusnier de Querlon, The Carmelite Keeper 307- Antoine Destutt de Tracy, On Love of The Keys 454- Boyer d'Argens, Therese Philosophe ••(. 6. CONFIDENCES 5 • 459- Louis Charles Fougeret de Monbron, Margot the Mender 464- Louis Charles Fougeret de Monbron, The Prostitute 314- Emilie du Chatelet, Letters to the Marquis de Saint-Lambert 470 • Mirabeau, My Conversion 320- Julie de Lespinasse, Letters to the Comte de Guibert 474- Pigault-Lebrun, The Brothel Child 325 • Mirabeau, Letter to Sophie de Monnier 481 • The Marquis de Sade,Juliette, or Vice Amply Rewarded 330- Beaumarchais, Letter to Madame de Godeville 334- Denis Diderot, The Nun 486-Bibliography 339-Jean-Jacques Rousseau, The Confessions 488-Index 344 • The Marquis de Sade, Letter to the Marquise de Sade 350- The Chevalier de Boufflers, Letters to the Comtesse de Sabran NOTE 354- Casanova, History of My Life The original spelling and punctuation of period 362 • Dominique Vivant Denon, Letter to Isabelle Teotochi translations have been retained.