Query: Books about French prostitution or from 1785
Domain: books
Relevant documents:
Van de koele meren des doods
Belle de Jour (novel)
Querelle of Brest
King Kong Theory
The 120 Days of Sodom
Splendeurs et misères des courtisanes
Notes on the State of Virginia
La Dame aux Camélias
Sangoku Tsūran Zusetsu
Our Lady of the Flowers
The Journal of a Tour to the Hebrides
Baron Munchausen's Narrative of his Marvellous Travels and Campaigns in Russia
Evidence from documents: Van de koele meren des doods: She gets addicted to it, and after her release she becomes a prostitute to support her addiction
Belle de Jour (novel): Books about French prostitution: Séverine becomes curious about prostitution as a means of satisfying her desires.
French: '''''Belle de Jour''''' is a novel by French author Joseph Kessel
Querelle of Brest: French: '''''Querelle of Brest''''' () is a novel by the French writer Jean Genet. It was written mostly in 1945 and first published anonymously in 1947, limited to 460 numbered copies, with illustrations by Jean Cocteau.
prostitution: Georges Querelle, its protagonist, is a bisexual thief, prostitute and serial killer who manipulates and kills his lovers for thrills and profit.
King Kong Theory: '''''King Kong Theory''''' is a book by filmmaker and novelist Virginie Despentes, first published in French in 2006 by Grasset. English-language editions have been published in 2010 by The Feminist Press (translated by Stéphanie Benson) and in 2020 by Fitzcarraldo Editions (translated by Frank Wynne).
The title is a reference to the 2005 film ''King Kong,'' directed by Peter Jackson. In the first essay of the book, Despentes describes herself as "more King Kong than Kate Moss," saying she is "too aggressive, too noisy, too fat, too rough, too hairy, always too masculine." Later, in a section titled "King Kong Girl," she expands on this reading:
The book is a blend of memoir, critical theory, and feminist manifesto. Despentes discusses a number of episodes in her life, including the reaction to the publication of her novel ''Baise-Moi'' and its subsequent film adaptation, which she directed; her time as a sex worker in Lyon and Paris; and her experience and subsequent trauma being gang-raped at the age of 17 while hitch-hiking across France. The overarching focus of the book has been described as "the ways in which our experiences of gender, power, and control are bound up in the vast, multifaceted ideology of late capitalism and our lives are organized around satisfying, or disappointing, male desire."
The book is split into seven short sections or essays:
The 120 Days of Sodom: from 1785: '''''The 120 Days of Sodom, or the School of Libertinage''''' () is an unfinished novel by the French writer and nobleman Donatien Alphonse François, Marquis de Sade, written in 1785 and published in 1904 after its manuscript was rediscovered.
Books about French prostitution: Described as both pornographic and erotic, its plot revolves around the activities of four wealthy, male libertines who, in the four months of one winter, attempt to seek out the ultimate sexual gratification through orgies, sealing themselves away in an inaccessible castle in the heart of the Black Forest in Germany with a harem of thirty-six victims, mostly male and female teenagers. During this, they engage four female brothel keepers to tell the stories of their lives and adventures; the crimes and tortures in the women's narratives inspire the libertines to similarly abuse and torture their victims, which gradually intensifies, increases in violence, and ends in their slaughter.
Splendeurs et misères des courtisanes: *Esther Van Gobseck, former courtesan and lover of Lucien, assigned to seducing Nucingen. Commits suicide after sleeping with Nucingen for money.
Notes on the State of Virginia: '''''Notes on the State of Virginia''''' (1785) is a book written by the American statesman, philosopher, and planter Thomas Jefferson.
La Dame aux Camélias: Set in mid-19th-century France, the novel tells the tragic love story between fictional characters Marguerite Gautier, a demimondaine or courtesan suffering from consumption, and Armand Duval, a young bourgeois. Marguerite is nicknamed '''' () because she wears a red camellia when she is menstruating and unavailable for sex and a white camellia when she is available to her lovers.
Sangoku Tsūran Zusetsu: by Hayashi Shihei (1738–93) was published in Japan in 1785. This book represents one of the earliest attempts to define Japan in terms of its outer boundaries. It represented a modern effort to distinguish Japan from the neighboring nations.
Our Lady of the Flowers: Divine lives in an attic room overlooking Montmartre cemetery, which she shares with various lovers, the most important of whom is a pimp called Darling Daintyfoot. One day Darling brings home a young hoodlum and murderer, dubbed Our Lady of the Flowers. Our Lady is eventually arrested and tried, and executed.
The Journal of a Tour to the Hebrides: '''''The Journal of a Tour to the Hebrides with Samuel Johnson, LL.D.''''' is a travel journal by Scotsman James Boswell first published in 1785.
Baron Munchausen's Narrative of his Marvellous Travels and Campaigns in Russia: '''''Baron Munchausen's Narrative of his Marvellous Travels and Campaigns in Russia''''' is a 1785 novel about a fictional German nobleman written by the German writer Rudolf Erich Raspe.