February 2012
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'Rasputin Was My Neighbor' And Other True Tales Of... →
January 2012
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“The callousness of the Rich legitimates the bad conduct of the Poor; let them...”
– Marquis de Sade, Justine
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Mozart's "The Magic Flute" to be performed at... →
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“one must, said Juliette, take good care to avoid believe it is marriage that...”
– Marquis de Sade, Justine
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History Matters - Alexandra M. Lord →
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“I love you no longer with the devotion which is paid to a Saint: I prize you no...”
– Matthew Lewis, “The Monk” (1796)
(via pocketwatches)
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“He was the universe to me, and all that was not him, was nothing to me.”
– Fanny Hill
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“Justine is the most abominable book ever engendered by the most depraved...”
– Napoleon Bonaparte on the Marquis de Sade’s Justine
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December 2011
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To Libertines
Voluptuaries of all ages, of every sex, it is to you only that I offer this work; nourish yourselves upon its principles: they favor your passions, and these passions, whereof coldly insipid moralists put you in fear, are naught but the means Nature employs to bring man to the ends she prescribes to him; harken only to these delicious promptings, for no voice save that of the passions can conduct...
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“By gnawing through a dike, even a rat may drown a nation.”
– Edmund Burke
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“I cannot omit setting down here an adventure that happened to Mr. [Thomas] Dixon...”
– George Carpenter, Paris, 1717
November 2011
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To Bennet Langton, Esq., At Langton, Near Spilsby, Lincolnshire
Dear Sir I should be sorry to think that what engrosses the attention of my friend, should have no part of mine. Your mind is now full of the fate of Dury; but his fate is past, and nothing remains but to try what reflection will suggest to mitigate the terrors of a violent death, which is more formidable at the first glance, than...
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“Your body is the church where Nature asks to be reverenced.”
– Marquis de Sade Juliette
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Life & Luxury: The Art of Living in...
François Boucher, French, 1703–1770 Lady Fastening Her Garter (also known as La Toilette) 1742 Oil on canvas Museo Thyssen-Bornemisza, Madrid
Pleasure is the object, duty and the goal of all rational creatures. Voltaire
Amidst the robe à la française with gold metallic trim and...
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Love in the 18th century
Guest Post by the lovely Lauren of Marie Antoinette’s Gossip Guide
The ideas of love and relationships in the 18th century varied by social status. Extramarital affairs were not only common amongst aristocrats but accepted too. This was not the case with the bourgeois, if affairs cold be considered a privilege, it was one of the nobles only. An excellent case of affair-intolerance among...
October 2011
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A Nocturnal Reverie
In such a night, when every louder wind Is to its distant cavern safe confined; And only gentle Zephyr fans his wings, And lonely Philomel, still waking, sings; Or from some tree, famed for the owl’s delight, She, hollowing clear, directs the wanderer right: In such a night, when passing clouds give place, Or thinly veil the heavens’ mysterious face; When in some river, overhung with...
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