Brantome, as a racial Frenchman, saw above all a woman. He looks at this peculiar creature with the eyes of naive curiosity; everything about her interests him: anatomy, mentality, inclination, customs, all of which he describes faithfully from contemporary living models drawn from the highest, often crowned, spheres, without exactly disguising his expressions, forcing his sometimes subtle observations into language amusingly at odds with his subject, sometimes parade-like in naiveté, sometimes monstrous in shameless exposure and fondness for detail, and yet always laced with the thoroughly skeptical and filthy smile of a court regular.
State Publishing Institute, 1957
Format: 205 x 130 mm, 658 pages
Hardcover, cloth-covered book in nice condition (minor scuffs and dings).
