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-:"The epicureanism of Ninon de Lenclos, Marion de Lorme, Marquise de Sévigné and de Lafare, Chaulieu, St. Evremond, this entire society, tired of mere cytheric love, turned to Buffon, held that only bodily passions were worthwhile in love, and soon changed the style in novels. The writers found it simpler to amuse and corrupt these women than to serve and glorify them. They created incidents, descriptions and conversations more in the spirit of the time and developed its cynicism and immorality in a pleasant, easy and at times philosophic style." +:"The epicureanism of Ninon de Lenclos, Marion de Lorme, Marquise de Sévigné and de Lafare, Chaulieu, St. Evremond, this entire society, tired of mere cytheric love, turned to Buffon, held that only bodily passions were worthwhile in love, and soon changed the style in novels. The writers found it simpler to amuse and corrupt these women than to serve and glorify them. They created incidents, descriptions and conversations more in the spirit of the time and developed its cynicism and immorality in a pleasant, easy and at times philosophic style." [http://www.justinedesade.com/eroticlit.htm]
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"L'épicuréïsme des Ninon-de-Lenclos, des Marion-de-Lorme, des marquis de Sévigné et de Lafare, des Chaulieu, des St Evremond, de toute cette société charmante enfin, qui, revenue des langueurs du dieu de Cythère, commençait à penser comme Buffon, qu'il n'y avait de bon en amour que le physique, changea bientôt le ton des romans; les écrivains qui parurent ensuite, sentirent, que les fadeurs n'amuseraient plus un siècle perverti par le régent, un siècle revenu des folies chevaleresques, des extravagances religieuses, et de l'adoration des femmes; et trouvant plus simple d'amuser ces femmes ou de les corrompre, que de les servir ou de les encenser, ils créèrent des évènements, des tableaux, des conversations plus à l'esprit du jour; ils enveloppèrent du cynisme, des immoralités, sous un style agréable et badin, quelquefois même philosophique, et plurent au moins s'ils n'instruisirent pas." --Reflections on the Novel, Sade


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"The epicureanism of Ninon de Lenclos, Marion de Lorme, Marquise de Sévigné and de Lafare, Chaulieu, St. Evremond, this entire society, tired of mere cytheric love, turned to Buffon, held that only bodily passions were worthwhile in love, and soon changed the style in novels. The writers found it simpler to amuse and corrupt these women than to serve and glorify them. They created incidents, descriptions and conversations more in the spirit of the time and developed its cynicism and immorality in a pleasant, easy and at times philosophic style." [1]




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