The Bohemians.

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• MitwirkendeR: Darnton, Robert,
• Place / Publishing House: Philadelphia : : University of Pennsylvania Press, , [2011]; ©2010
• Year of Publication: 2011
• Language: English
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (248 p.)

While the marquis de Sade was drafting The 120 Days of Sodom in the Bastille, another libertine marquis in a nearby cell was also writing a novel—one equally outrageous, full of sex and slander, and more revealing for what it had to say about the conditions of writers and writing itself. Yet Sade�...

Table of Contents

• Frontmatter
• Contents
• Introduction
• Translator’s Note
• Main Characters
• Chapter One: The Legislator Bissot Renounces Chicanery in Favor of Philosophy
• Chapter Two: The Two Brothers Wander on the Plains of Champagne
• Chapter Three: Supper Better Than Dinner
• Chapter Four: Who Were These People Supping Under the Stars on the Plains of Champagne?
• Chapter Five: Reveille; The Troupe Marches Forward; Unremarkable Adventures
• Chapter Six: Cock-Crow
• Chapter Seven: After Which, Try to Say There Are No Ghosts . . .
• Chapter Eight: The Denouement
• Chapter Nine: Nocturnal Adventures That Deserve to See the Light of Day, and Worthy of an Academician’s Pen
• Chapter Ten: The Terrible Effects of Causes
• Chapter Eleven: Uncivil Dissertations
• Chapter Twelve: Parallel of Mendicant and Proprietary Monks
• Chapter Thirteen: Various Projects Highly Important to the Public Weal
• Chapter Fourteen: On Hospitality
• Chapter Fifteen: Morning Matins at the Charterhouse
• Chapter Sixteen: Panegyric of the Clergy
• Chapter Seventeen: A Mouse with Only One Hole Is Easy to Take
• Chapter Eighteen: How Lungiet Was Interrupted by a Miracle
• Chapter Nineteen: Which Will Not Be Long
• Chapter Twenty: A Pilgrim’s Narrative
• Chapter Twenty-One: Continuation of the Pilgrim’s Narrative
• Notes