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The libertine novel was an 18th-century literary genre of which the roots lay in the European but mainly French libertine tradition. The genre effectively ended with the French Revolution. Themes of libertine novels were anti-clericalism, anti-establishment and eroticism.

Authors include Cyrano de Bergerac ( L’Autre monde ou les états et empires de la Lune, 1657), ^[1] Claude Prosper Jolyot de Crébillon ( Les Égarements du cœur et de l'esprit, 1736; Le Sopha, conte moral, 1742), Denis Diderot ( Les bijoux indiscrets, 1748), Marquis de Sade ( L'Histoire de Juliette, 1797–1801), Choderlos de Laclos ( Les Liaisons dangereuses, 1782).

Other famous titles are Histoire de Dom Bougre, Portier des Chartreux (1741) and Thérèse Philosophe (1748).

Precursors to the libertine writers were Théophile de Viau (1590-1626) and Charles de Saint-Evremond (1610-1703), who were inspired by Epicurus and the publication of Petronius, and John Wilmot ( Sodom, or the Quintessence of Debauchery, 1684). .

Robert Darnton is a cultural historian who has covered this genre extensively.

English translations

In alphabetical order by author's last name:

• Argens, Marquis d’ (2020). Thérèse Finds Happiness (aka Therese The Philosopher). New Urge Editions/Black Scat Books. ISBN  9781734816631.

• Choderlos de Laclos, Pierre (2008). Les Liaisons dangereuses. Oxford World's Classics. ISBN  9780199536481.

• Chorier, Nicholas (2020). School of Women (aka: The Academy of Ladies). New Urge Editions/Black Scat Books. ISBN  9781734816686.

• Crebillon, Claude-Prosper Jolyot de (1981). The Wanderings of the Heart and Mind. Gallimard. ISBN  9782070368914.
• Declose, Anne (2013). The Story of O. Balantine Books. ASIN  B00BRUQ7O0.
• Diderot, Denis (2020). From Their Lips to His Ear (aka: The Indiscreet Toys). New Urge Editions/Black Scat Books. ISBN  9781735615912.

• Diderot, Denis (1993). The Indiscreet Jewels. Marsilio Publishers. ISBN  9780941419833.
• Ewing, Frederick R. (1956). I, Libertine. Ballantine Books. ISBN  9781480410107.
• La Morlière, Jacques Rochette de (2020). A Coming of Age (Part One of "The Ecclesiastical Laurels"). New Urge Editions/Black Scat Books. ISBN  9781734816679.
• La Morlière, Jacques Rochette de (2020). Ecclesiastical Laurels: or Abbot T***'s Campaigns with the Triumph of the Nuns. Sunny Lou Publishing. ISBN  9781735477657.
• Meusnier de Querlon, Anne-Gabriel (2020). Don't Touch (aka: The Carmelite Extern Nun). New Urge Editions/Black Scat Books. ISBN  9781734816662.
• Restif de la Bretonne (2020). Foot Notes (first 10 chapters of Fanchette's Foot). New Urge Editions/Black Scat Books. ISBN  9781735615929.

• Sade, Marquis de (1994). Juliette. Grove Press. ISBN  9780802130853.
• Sade, Marquis de (2013). Justine, or the Misfortunes of Virtue. Oxford University Press. ISBN  9780199572847.

Further reading

In alphabetical order by last name:

• DeJean, Joan (1981). Libertine Strategies: Freedom and the Novel in Seventeenth-Century France. Ohio State University Press. ISBN  9780814203255.
• Hölzle, Dominique (2012). Le Roman libertin au XVIIIe siècle: une esthétique de la séduction [The Libertine Novel of the 18th Century: An Esthetic of Seduction] (in French). Oxford University Press. ISBN  9780729410458.

• Lachèvre, Frédéric (1921). Les Œuvres libertines de Cyrano de Bergerac, Parisien (1619–1655), précédées d'une notice biographique. Tome premier [The Libertine Works of Cyrano de Bergerac, Parisian (1619–1655), preceded by a biographical notice. Volume one] (in French). Paris: Librairie ancienne Honoré Champion. Retrieved 5 April 2015.

• Miletic, Tijana (2008). European Literary Immigration Into the French Language: Readings of Gary, Kristof, Kundera and Semprun. Brill-Rodopi. pp. 196–197. ISBN  9789042024007.
• Stam, Robert; Raengo, Alessandra, eds. (2007). A Companion to Literature and Film. Wiley-Blackwell. pp. 347–349. ISBN  9781405177559.

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