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Bonaparte's Lovers
www.napoleonguide.com/loveind.htm
Biographies of Napoleon's two wives and many mistresses.
The French Revolution and the Spread of Politically Motivated Pornography
www.libidomag.com
/nakedbrunch/europorn04.html
Fascinating essay on how sexually oriented materials, once the sole
province of the French aristocracy, became a weapon of the lower classes.
NB: the essay is illustrated with contemporary pornographic images.
The Marquis de Sade
www.popsubculture.com/pop/
bio_project/marquis_de_sade.html
A biography of the notorious French writer who was freed from the
Bastille by the reactionary mob in 1790 and then forced to serve as a
Grand Juror at many trials.
Books
Napoleon & Josephine by Evangeline Bruce (Phoenix, 1996) £9.99
A joint biography of the French emperor and the woman who obsessed him
from their first meeting.
Harriette Wilson: Lady of pleasure by Valerie Grosvenor Myer (Fern
House, 1999) £17.50
Colourful biography of the courtesan who wooed Wellington among others.
Her anecdotes provide a scintillating exposé of the great players
of the Regency period.
At Home with the Marquis de Sade by Francine du Plessix Gray (Pimlico,
2000) £15
This biography places de Sade in the complex political situation that
saw him demonised as the figure of both the worst excesses of the French
aristocracy and the
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