Therese Philosophe: A modern translation of an eighteenth century erotic classic

First published in 1748, this novel was one of the most notorious French erotic novels of the eighteenth century; and, despite its clandestine status, a bestseller. Among its admirers was the Marquis de Sade, who said (in his *Juliette*) that it was "alone to have achieved happy results from the combining of lust and impiety" and "finally gave us an idea of what an immoral book could be". Sade like many others attributed it to Jean-Baptiste Boyer d'Argens (1703-1771), author of a number of ...