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In 1785, Restif coined the phrase four years before revolution broke out.
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In 1785, Restif coined the phrase four years before revolution broke out.
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In 1785, Restif coined the phrase four years before revolution broke out.
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“Not for nothing have I read my Laclos, my Crébillon, the divine Madame de Lafayette, my Restif, and all the others,” he went on.
The Berrybender Narratives Larry McMurtry 2004
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Vol. 2: Oeuvres érotiques de Restif de la Bretonne: règlement pour les prostituées L'Anti-Justine ou les délices de l'amour Dom Bougre aux Etats-Généraux ou doléances du Portier des Chartreux Les Revies, histories refaites sous une autre hypothèse du coeur humain dévoilé
Sex for Thought Darnton, Robert 1994
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Restif de la Bretonne described this scene in a brief anecdote, as having the most elegant table, innumerable comforts scattered around a very small space, and a centerpiece representing the three Graces; everything breathed an air of the most exquisite sensual pleasure.
Savoring The Past Wheaton Barbara Ketcham 1983
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Restif de la Bretonne described this scene in a brief anecdote, as having the most elegant table, innumerable comforts scattered around a very small space, and a centerpiece representing the three Graces; everything breathed an air of the most exquisite sensual pleasure.
Savoring The Past Wheaton Barbara Ketcham 1983
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The origin Restif here assigns to his shoe-fetichism may seem paradoxical; he admired the girls who were most clean and neat in their dress, he tells us, and, therefore, paid most attention to that part of their clothing which was least clean and neat.
Studies in the Psychology of Sex, Volume 5 Erotic Symbolism; The Mechanism of Detumescence; The Psychic State in Pregnancy Havelock Ellis 1899
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Restif was a sexually precocious youth, and at the age of
Studies in the Psychology of Sex, Volume 5 Erotic Symbolism; The Mechanism of Detumescence; The Psychic State in Pregnancy Havelock Ellis 1899
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Restif wishes to subject the girl who attracts him, he has no wish to be subjected by her.
Studies in the Psychology of Sex, Volume 5 Erotic Symbolism; The Mechanism of Detumescence; The Psychic State in Pregnancy Havelock Ellis 1899
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