Wilde's Salomé in its original (French) edition. Louÿs thereby was able to socialize with homosexuals. Louÿs started writing his first erotic texts at the...
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the relationship between 19th-century French authors Pierre Louÿs and Marie de Régnier. Pierre Louÿs was an erotomaniac who took erotic or pornographic...
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The Songs of Bilitis (category Works by Pierre Louÿs)
collection of erotic, essentially lesbian, poetry by Pierre Louÿs published in Paris in 1894. Since Louÿs claimed that he had translated the original poetry...
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Bilitis (film) (category Films based on works by Pierre Louÿs)
Melissa, respectively. The film is loosely based on a poem cycle by Pierre Louÿs entitled The Songs of Bilitis set in ancient Greece, although the film...
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Adventures of King Pausole') is a French novel with erotic themes by Pierre Louÿs, first published in serial form in 1900. The work has been called "a...
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around an ancient Greek family who moves to Aulis. The French writer Pierre Louÿs titled his erotic historical novel Aphrodite: mœurs antiques (1896) after...
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Trois Filles de leur mère (category Novels by Pierre Louÿs)
(lit. 'Three Daughters of their Mother') is a French erotic novel by Pierre Louÿs, first published in 1926. In the "Notice to the reader", the author purports...
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Aphrodite: mœurs antiques (category Novels by Pierre Louÿs)
antiques ("Aphrodite: ancient morals") is an 1896 French-language novel by Pierre Louÿs. Set in Alexandria, the novel tells the story of Chrysis, a courtesan...
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That Obscure Object of Desire (category Films based on works by Pierre Louÿs)
by Luis Buñuel, based on the 1898 novel The Woman and the Puppet by Pierre Louÿs. It was Buñuel's final directorial effort before his death in July 1983...
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Régnier, but had a long-term relationship with Pierre Louÿs, who was probably the father of her son Pierre de Régnier (1898–1943). She also took several...
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