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Michel Millot

 

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Michel Millot : L'escolle des filles, ou La philosophie des dames, divis?e en deux dialogues

'Thence homeward by coach, and stopped at Martins my bookseller, where I saw the French book which I did think to have had for my wife to translate, called "L'escholle de Filles", but when I came to look into it, it is the most bawdy, lewd book that I ever saw, rather worse than "putana errante" - so that I was ashamed of reading in it'

Century: 1600-1699     Reader/Listener/Group: Samuel Pepys      Print: Book

  

Michel Millot : L'escolle des filles, ou La philosophie des dames, divis?e en deux dialogues

'Up, and at my chamber all the morning and the office, doing business and also reading a little of "L'escolle des Filles", which is a mighty lewd book, but yet not amiss for a sober man to read over to inform himself in the villainy of the world.' The previous day Pepys bought the book, writing in his diary: 'which I have bought in plain binding (avoiding the buying of it better bound) because I resolve, as soon as I have read it, to burn it, that it may not stand in the list of books, nor among them, to disgrace them if it should be found.'

Century: 1600-1699     Reader/Listener/Group: Samuel Pepys      Print: Book

  

Michel Millot : L'escolle des filles, ou La philosophie des dames, divis?e en deux dialogues

'and then they parted and I to my chamber, where I did read through "L'escholle des Filles"; a lewd book, but what doth me no wrong to read for information sake (but it did hazer my prick para stand all the while, and una vez to decharger); and after I had done it, I burned it, that it might not be among my books to my shame; and so at night to supper and then to bed.'

Century: 1600-1699     Reader/Listener/Group: Samuel Pepys      Print: Book

 

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